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