[Inschool] [Fwd: [Fwd: [KLUG Members] New LINUX products]]

[Adam Williams]

>Hehe... well, Tony beat me to it and my answer is pretty much identical to his.
>I did manage to dig up interesting links to software packages... see below!
>>- Student learning (Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, Kid Pix, Mavis Beacon,
>>    Jumpstart, NovaNET, and many others)
>Not sure.  Some of these actual packages might run under Wine.

Agree.  

>Check these out:
>Blue Linux - http://www.bluelinux.org - a Linux distribution
>specifically for education Cinderella - http://www.cinderella.de -
>Geometry software GCompris -
>http://ofset.sourceforge.net/gcompris/about.html - a suite of over 30

There is Dr. Genius for geometry as well.

>educational activities for 3 to 10 year olds.
>Free Physics - http://freephysics.sourceforge.net - a physical similator for
>teachers.

There are lots of 'educational' packages,  but one has to admit that most 
of these are definitely not aimed at elemetrary students.

>Don't be afraid to go to http://www.freshmeat.net (where I found these) or

Don't fear the meat? :)

>http://www.sourceforge.net and search for these things.  I think there are A 
>LOT of software packages for linux out there but people don't always know where
>to look.
>>- Writing notes to parents (MS Word, MS Works)
>StarOffice, OpenOffice, Abiword, Koffice...
>>- Creating presentations (MS Powerpoint, MS Excel, MS Works)
>StarOffice, OpenOffice
>>- Developing newsletters (MS Publisher, MS Works, and others)
>Not sure....  StarOffice and/or OpenOffice can probably do this.

Oh yes.  M$ Publisher it a ***DISEASE****.  Agh, I hate that application.

>>- Recording grades and scores (I think this SW is provided by KRESA)
>Depends on how the grades need to be recorded.  Spreadsheets and database
>programs can do stuff like that.

I've never seen the KRESA app.  But what I've seen at GRPS (which may be 
KRESA) could have been written by a first year VB student.

>>- Writing and reading e-mail (MS Outlook, AOL, and others)
>Mozilla, Evolution, Kmail

Mutt, Pine, Ezlm, Z-mail, Elm.... the list goes on.

>>-Surfing the web (Internet Explorer, Netscape)
>Mozilla, Netscape, Konqueror, Galeon, Opra...

And plugins!  I can play the very latest LOTR/p2 trailer in Xine!  No 
"Codec not supported messages". Weeeeeeeeeeh!