Linux and Education

[osmansiddiq]

LliureX is an Edubuntu-based live DVD developed by the Council of Culture, Education and Sport at the Municipality of Valencia in Spain, designed for deployment in schools throughout the region. A new version, based on Edubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn", was announced yesterday. New features include: full support for Valencian and Spanish, with additional language modules for other regional languages of Spain, as well as English, French, German, Arabic, Russian and Romanian; improved hardware support and up-to-date software with two years of guaranteed security updates; GNOME 2.18 desktop, OpenOffice.org 2.2 office suite, Firefox 2.0 web browser and Linux kernel 2.6.20; new and more robust system of auto-configuration with a transparent installation of configuration files. Read the full release announcement (in Spanish) for further details.

http://lliurex.net/home/

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EduPup. EduPup, a light GNU/Linux distribution based on Puppy Linux, is dedicated to children and their teachers and parents. It includes the following educational programs: TuxType2, TuxMath, ChildsPlay, TuxPuck and TuxPaint.

http://www.edupup.org/

[osmansiddiq]

Linguas OS is a Linux operating system adapted for translators. Linguas OS was initiated by Anthony Baldwin. , Linguas OS was created for two purposes:
1) to demonstrate to professionals in the translation industry that they need not be enslaved to propietary software vendors, rather, that they can use FOSS (Free Open Source Software) alternatives, and;
2) For translators already usingLinux and FOSS tools, Linguas OS is a prefab distro solution.
Linguas OS is based on PCFluxboxOS .
http://www.baldwinlinguas.com/linguasos.html

more here
http://www.linuxfortranslators.org/linux/linux.html
and here
http://www.proz.com/translation-articles/articles/125/



http://www.omegat.org/en/omegat.html
OmegaT is a free translation memory application written in Java. It is a tool intended for professional translators. It does not translate for you! (Software that does this is called "machine translation", and you will have to look elsewhere for it.) OmegaT has the following features:

* Fuzzy matching
* Match propagation
* Simultaneous processing of multiple-file projects
* Simultaneous use of multiple translation memories
* External glossaries
* Document file formats:
XHTML and HTML
Microsoft Office 2007 XML
OpenOffice.org/StarOffice
XLIFF (Okapi)
MediaWiki (Wikipedia)
Plain text
* Unicode (UTF-8) support: can be used with non-Latin alphabets
* Support for right-to-left languages
* Compatible with other translation memory applications (TMX)

[osmansiddiq]

Speaking Hangman is a cross-platform bilingual game that's both fun and educational, and suitable for the whole family.
Speaking Hangman is an educational game to practice and expand your English and Spanish vocabularies. The game is designed for people of any age above 7 years.

You'll need to have a Java 2 Java Runtime Environment installed on your system to play the game. If you're not sure if the version of Java you're running is adequate to the task, you can test it on the page you download the program from.
http://www.linux.com/feature/123819

[osmansiddiq]

Pierrick Le Brun announced the availability of ZenEdu Live Christmas Edition, a special edition of Zenwalk Linux: "Zenwalk community, on the occasion of this festive season, is pleased to offer you a Special Edition of ZenEdu Live. A live CD based on Zenwalk snapshot and focusing on educational and fun contents which can be used independently by educational institutions, families, students and children alike. Along with the legendary speed, lightness and full multimedia support you can expect from a Zenwalk derived production, key features include the famed educational suite GCompris, the universal OpenOffice.org suite and the indispensable over-the-network teaching and viewing tool iTALC, already pre-configured with teacher/student parameters." Here is the full announcement.
http://support.zenwalk.org/index.php?topic=13033.0

[nomankhn]

Hi Osman,

Your posts are really meaning full. I would like to know if you have list of opensource softwares that works in following industries.

1. FSI [Financial Sector Institution]
2. MRD [Manufacturing, Retail & Distributor]
3. CMU [Communication, Media & Utilities]


Thanks,
With BestRegards,
Noman Liaquat

[osmansiddiq]

Hi Noman,

I just started the thread because i had a lot of links in my bookmarks about education and i thought it a good idea to post em so everybody could benefit and after that whenever i read an article related to education i put it up in the same thread

As to you`re query just google or better go to sourceforge, I did post quite a few links about business andlinux or open source, business models with opensource in mind and such but did`nt put them in 1 single thread

Although I was enthusiastic about epos - electronic point of sales on linux and have collected quite a few links , ideas etc. I think it a great project which has a great demand even in pakistan with multinational companies opewning their branches in pakistan like makro etc.I do remember a month or two back an add by utility stores asking for such a thing for all their stores, also a lot of superstores are opening up which do have a requirement of epos and video survelliance (furukh bhai was working on a video survelliance system)
I could also provide you with hardwae to test epos in karachi , any takers
of epos project, anyway do let me know if i could be of assistance when you narrow down your priorities and do tell what you had in mind

thanks

[nomankhn]

Hi Osman,

Thanks for your kind reply, actually mostly softwares are currently based on Microsoft Platform, so i would like the list of software that open source developers develop for said enviornment by me, In this way we can compare down the list of softwares of open source with Microsoft, so we could assist our LP users and other folks about that.

That category is a general idea that comes in my mind because mostly companies are divided in that part, if you have something for that its really kind to you. In this way all LP users can understand and will be able to difference that open souce developers are also building those softwares which Microsoft developers are doing.

I am sure you got my point.

Your links are always excellent and that will really helpful for me and other LP users as well.

Thank You.
With BestRegads,
Noman Liaquat

[mudasir]

Music Education With Linux Sound Tools

Whatever you play, make your music lessons and practice sessions more productive with these music learning tools.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7606

[mudasir]

Lormalinux : Linux for Education

LormaLINUX is Lorma Colleges' very own Linux Distribution that has been optimized and customized to meet the needs of educational institutions and its students. It is a full-featured Operating System specifically created for ease of installation, ease of use and functionality.


http://linux.lorma.edu/main/

[mudasir]

The following link contains Catagories regarding Education.

http://linuxappfinder.com/education

[mudasir]

Linux as a server for schools

As a file server for schools, Linux is ready now. It can act as a native Appletalk, SMB, NFS, or NetWare server. Files stored on a Linux system can be simultaneously available for users of all four of those networking systems (and more, although those are by far the most common in schools). Linux also enjoys an advantage in price here over the alternatives, since its legendary efficiency and low cost mean that computers considered obsolescent under other operating systems can be put back into service as functional Linux servers.

When it comes to providing Internet services, Linux again easily beats the more commonly used scholastic systems. Setting up Linux systems to provide email accounts, an NNTP news server, a Web server, file and print services, and firewalling, proxy, and IP masquerading is fairly easy, and certainly rewards the effort. Given that Linux is free, and can run well on older hardware, there is no reason why numerous severs couldn't be set up. For many high schools, creating these systems could be part of the learning experience itself. The benefits could be felt in many areas, including mailing lists for staff and student organizations, for instance.

[mudasir]

Administrative software

What about the systems that students, teachers, and staff actually work with directly? These systems have mostly been Macintosh and more recently Microsoft Windows machines. How does Linux fare in that niche?

Unfortunately, not too well at the moment. There are a number of projects working on addressing deficiencies in application software for Linux, but few of them have software currently ready for wide-spread deployment. However, work is progressing rapidly on many of these programs and you can expect to see useful Linux software for schools shortly.

On the administrative side, we've heard teachers say that if there isn't a good Linux gradebook program, Linux will never get onto teachers' desks. Period. Luckily, some of these teachers are also Linux fans and are working on programs that have the features they want rather than those that software companies think will sell. There's K12Admin, an account administration program written and currently in use at the Coast Mountain School District in British Columbia, Grader, a GNOME gradebook program being written by several teachers and students, KTeacher, a KDE gradebook being written by another teacher, and Roster, an account administration program written and used at Laney College. In addition, OpenClassroom, the Authenticated User Community (AUC), LearnLoop, and Zschool all intend to provide Web-based educational "environments" with integrated administrative and collaborative capabilities. Work is also beginning on a general testing and quizzing application that can be run by itself or integrated with some or all of the environments mentioned above.

K12Admin : http://k12admin.cmsd.bc.ca

KTeacher : http://www.linuxlots.com/~dwculp/

Roster : http://roster.seul.org

OpenClassroom : http://www.openclassroom.org

LearnLoop : http://www.learnloop.org

Zschool : http://www.zschool.org

[mudasir]

Do read this article

http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/152/

very informative about Education and Linux.

[mudasir]

Tux4Kids Non Profit Education Software

http://www.samhart.com/tux4kids/distro/

[mudasir]

10 Websites offering free Linux Courses Online

http://education-portal.com/articles/10 ... nline.html

Very very good.