[clug] Linux on new school computers (S/W List)

jm jeffm at ghostgun.com
Fri Nov 30 02:42:21 GMT 2007


jm wrote:

As of 20071127T1830 the list is as below. There's simple too much to
review in a short period.

  Added TechDrawing, CAD, CAM section
  Removed google earth and mango (not FOSS)


Need to:
* Check that all software listed is FOSS
* Shorten list to 1 or two per category
* Have usage scenarios/use cases
* Show how these programs can be used in a curriculum

Example use case for Open Office Calc,


(d)	The file “assignment data.xls” contains data about sales of houses 
and units in Turner in 2001 and 2007. Use Calc’s inbuilt functions to 
calculate 5 number summaries for the years 2001, 2006 and 2007. Present 
these in a table. Use these values to draw comparative boxplots of the 
house prices for all 3 years. (That is put all 3 boxplots on the same 
graph. You can draw the comparative boxplots by hand.)


This question is taken from UC's Unit 6275 - "Statistical Analysis and 
Decision Making G" - assignment for Semester 2 2007. I simply replaced 
the word Excel with Calc. With modification of the input data format it 
is also possible to sovle this using R, thusly,

Turner2001 <- read.table("turner2001.csv", header=TRUE, sep=",")
Turner2006 <- read.table("turner2006.csv", header=TRUE, sep=",")
Turner2007 <- read.table("turner2007.csv", header=TRUE, sep=",")
Price2001 <- c(Turner2001["Price"])
Price2006 <- c(Turner2006["Price"])
Price2007 <- c(Turner2007["Price"])
boxplot(c(Price2001, Price2006, Price2007),
	names=c("2001", "2006", "2007"), range=0, ylab="Price", xlab="Year",
  main= "Boxplot of House and Unit Sale prices 2001, 2006, 2007")

and it was more fun than wresling with Excel and it's incorrectly 
formatted graphs. (Don't count on this answer being correct).

Other thoughts: Any clear winners here that must absolutely be demo-ed
given the chance? Any absolute dogs that should be avoided?

Alright, folk who wishes to take over here. Divide up the list perhaps 
and the next steps seem to be reasonable parallelable.

Jeff.

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English

Foreign Languages
   parley
     http://edu.kde.org/parley/
   jvlt
     http://jvlt.sourceforge.net/
   KVoctrain
     http://edu.kde.org/kvoctrain/

Mathematics
   Sage
     http://sagemath.org/
   SciLab
     http://www.scilab.org/
   Octave is a Matlab clone
     http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
   R  Language for statistics
     http://www.r-project.org/
   Dr Geo - Geometry
     http://www.ofset.org/drgeo

Astronomy
  Celestia
    http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
  Stellarium
    http://www.stellarium.org/
  Starplot
    http://starplot.org/
  KStars (Desktop Planetarium for KDE)
    http://edu.kde.org/kstars/
  MarsEVA
   software supporting the simulations of the Mars Society.
   http://marseva.sourceforge.net/

Physics
  Phat
    http://phet.colorado.edu/new/index.php
  Elmer
    http://www.csc.fi/english/pages/elmer
  Step (interactive physical simulator)
    http://edu.kde.org/step/

Chemistry
   JMol
     http://jmol.sourceforge.net/
   Chime
     http://ariadne.mse.uiuc.edu/Info/Chime/chime_linux.html
   Open RasMol
     http://www.openrasmol.org/
   GenChemLab - Lab simulator
     http://genchemlab.sourceforge.net/
   VigyaanCD - Live CD with Bio and Chem software
     http://www.vigyaancd.org/
   Ghemical
     http://www.uku.fi/~thassine/projects/ghemical/
   XChemDraw
     http://xdrawchem.sourceforge.net/
   Kalzium (periodic table)
     http://edu.kde.org/kalzium/

Earth Sciences
   Grass GIS
     http://grass.itc.it/
   QGIS
     http://www.qgis.org/
   GeoServer
     http://geoserver.org/
   List of Tools
     http://opensourcegis.org/
     http://freegis.org/
   Anuga - hydrodynamic models
     https://datamining.anu.edu.au/anuga
   Other
     http://remotesensing.org/Home.html


Biology
  Software List
    http://www.bioinformatics.org/software/index.php3

History

Geography
   KGeography
     http://kgeography.berlios.de/
   BrewsterJennings  (Web based)
     http://www.brewsterjennings.com/
   Generic Mapping Tools
    http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/
   Marble
    http://edu.kde.org/marble/


Music and Multi-Media
  eg https://canorus.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
   Audacity
     http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
   Linux Journal (Article)
     http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7606
   Gimp
     http://gimp.org/
   Inkscape - vector drawing
     http://www.inkscape.org/
   Blender
     http://www.blender.org/
   Dyne:bolic (LiveCD)
     http://www.dynebolic.org/
   Ardour (Multi track audio editing)
     http://ardour.org/
   Beast (music composition and modular synthesis)
     http://beast.gtk.org/
   Lives - video editing suite
     http://lives.sourceforge.net/
   Cinelerra - Non-linear video editing
     http://cvs.cinelerra.org/

Tech Drawing, CAD, CAE
   QCad
     http://www.qcad.org/qcad.html
   PCB
     http://pcb.sourceforge.net/
   KiCAD
     Eletcrontic schematic diagrams and PCB artwork
     http://iut-tice.ujf-grenoble.fr/kicad/
   Varkon - CAD
     http://varkon.sourceforge.net/
   BRLCAD
     Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system. (ex US mil)
     http://www.brlcad.org/

Comp Sci
  etoys (smalltalk)
    http://waveplace.com/movies/
    http://www.squeakland.org/
  scratch
    http://scratch.mit.edu/
  kara (erlang)
    http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1292520.1292534     (paper)
    http://www.erlang.se/workshop/2007/proceedings/12huch.pdf (presentation)
    http://www.swisseduc.ch/informatik/karatojava/kara/ (german)
    http://www.swisseduc.ch/informatik/karatojava/download.html 
(download including english version)
   Alice
     http://www.alice.org/
   LinuxGym
     http://linuxgym.sourceforge.net/

  Add you favorite language here.

General/back office
  Open Office
    http://openoffice.org/
  Moodle
    http://moodle.com/ and http://moodle.org/
  GTypist
    http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/
  GCompris
    http://gcompris.net/
  GnuCash
     http://gnucash.org/
  Evolution
     http://www.novell.com/products/evolution/
  Thunderbrid and Firefox
     http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/
  VNC
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNC (which version?)
  Scribus - Desk Top Publishing
    http://www.scribus.net/
  Wine
    http://www.winehq.org/

Administration
  See list at http://schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/Directory-administration
  Evergreen - Library System
    http://open-ils.org/
  Koha - Library System
    http://www.koha.org/

Software Lists, etc
   http://linuxappfinder.com/education
   http://www.linux.org/apps/all/Scientific/Education-1.html?sort=author
   http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-livecded/
   http://edu.kde.org/
   http://www.schoolforge.net/education-software
   http://schoolforge.org.uk/


thanks to
   david.symons at liberatedcomputing.net
   stiiixy at gmail.com
   andrew.bruce at immi.gov.au
   adam at snorkel.rtfm.net.au
   Duncan.Bolt at anu.edu.au
   tridge at samba.org
   rklein at tpg.com.au
   bradh at frogmouth.net
   Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au
   georgebray at gmail.com
   a.janke at gmail.com
   david at tulloh.id.au
   drose at nla.gov.au





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