[Fsf-friends] Guidence needed

[Vimal Joseph]

>   So, they had no choice but to shell out some money and buy Windows in the gray market and load it. When I raised my voice, they expressed 
> helplessness saying that their first aim is not to teach computers to kids but to grab their attention towards studies and use educational 
> s/w for this purpose. Since I did not know any Edu S/w for linux, I had to shut my mouth. So, im immediately writing to you friends, does 
> anyone know anything about this?
> 
> Waiting for your replies:

Dear friend,

there are tones of free software for education. Here is small list of
educational applications available for gnu/linux

Graphics
--
xpaint https://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/
tuxpaint - a cool'n'nice painting program
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/

Edutainment
--
tuxtype2  - typing game + tutor http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net/
gtans - tangram puzzle http://gtans.sourceforge.net/
chess (xboard + gnuchess) human vs computer (xboard -fcp gnuchess)
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/
xcruise - fly through your file system. http://xcruiser.sourceforge.net/
gcompris - a complete educational suit for kids http://gcompris.free.fr/
ktuberling - the potato guy - give me a new face game
http://opensource.bureau-cornavin.com/ktuberling/

Astronomy
--
Kstars - an online planetarium http://edu.kde.org/kstars/
celestia - all about celestial objects http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

Geography
--
kworldclock - know the world time 

Computer
--
xabacus - an ancient calculator http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/abacus.html
xaos - explore the magic of fractals http://xaos.theory.org/
gbase - convert to dec-bin-oct-hex
http://www.hibernaculum.net/gbase/index.php

Maths
--
Tuxmath - learn algebra by attacking the numbers
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxmath/
drgeo - Make the geometrical figures with out instrument box
http://www.ofset.org/drgeo
geg GTK equation grapher - simple graph plotting
http://www.infolaunch.com/~daveb/
Qulculate! - advanced calculator. you can enter expressions
http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/ 
mathwar - another math game
http://webpages.charter.net/stuffle/linux/mathwar/MathWar.html
kpercentage - master in calculating percentage.
http://edu.kde.org/kpercentage/

Physics
--
klogic - a tool for building and simulating digital circuits easily
http://www.a-rostin.de/klogic/

Chemistry
--
Atomix - learn the atomic structure of elements.
http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~pearl/gnome/atomix.html
chemtool - draw the chemical structures
http://ruby.chemie.uni-freiburg.de/~martin/chemtool/chemtool.html
rasmol (with samples) (open with terminal) - view the 3d molecule
structure http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/
gperiodic - periodic table http://gperiodic.seul.org/

English
--
Khangman - guess the word game http://edu.kde.org/khangman/
dictd + gdict + dictionary 
ispell - spell check what you write
Gretools - vocabulary building tool
http://theory.cs.iitm.ernet.in/~arvindn/gretools/
kmessedwords - rearrange the letters to find the correct word
http://edu.kde.org/kmessedwords/
wordnet + wnb - Electronic lexical database of English language

Programming
--
blassic - basic interpreter http://www.arrakis.es/~ninsesabe/blassic/
ucblogo - logo interpreter http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/logo.html
Guido van Robot http://gvr.sourceforge.net/ - learn programming from
Guido the robot (python with nice gui)
xwpe or rhide - IDE for c, c++ http://www.identicalsoftware.com/xwpe/
http://www.rhide.com/

Music
--
ditty - Allows you to play melodies from your built-in speaker
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/ditty
timidity - Software only MIDI player. http://timidity.sourceforge.net/
lilypond + denemo - a front end to lilypond - a music typesetter
http://denemo.sourceforge.net/ http://lilypond.org/web/

check these sites for more applications

http://www.gnomefiles.org/
http://ofset.sourceforge.net/freeduc/
http://directory.fsf.org/
http://edu.kde.org/

and a few distros with edu apps...
http://www.skolelinux.org/
http://www.k12ltsp.org/
http://ofset.org/freeduc-cd


Regards,
~vimal