Open Source Software
Open Source - Definitions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
Open Source & Education
http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-changed-education-10-success-stories
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3798721/Teachers-Need-An-Open-Source-Education.htm
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/12/2153223
Open Source Software - Lists [Some lists include Freeware & Shareware]
http://www.opensourcelist.org/
http://alternativeto.net/index.aspx?profile=linux This website lists alternatives to Win / Mac / Linux / online apps. In doing so it is also a great list of apps in itself!
http://www.digitaldarknet.net/thelist/
Open Source Software - Wikis
http://ability-programs-challengertafe.wikispaces.com/software+(freeware)+and+open+source+tools
Blogposts on Open Source
Pia Waugh http://pipka.org/blog/2009/03/18/ubuntu-training-for-educators/
MoodleMan http://www.moodleman.net/
My Blogpost of my favourite Open Source Apps.
http://ictedservices.typepad.com/icted_services/2009/03/my-entry.html
Click here for my OpenOffice 3 Resource Page
Click here for Resources on VITTA’s Open for Education Day 10.06.2009
Last October I listed my favourite Macintosh Applications in my blog [01.10.2008]. I am now listing my favourite open source applications. I have been a Mac user since the early 1990's, I am only really starting as an open source user. This is that often some of the software that comes on a Mac is just great and it discourages use of some open source software, e.g. why use Audacity if you have GarageBand? If you want to web author, just use iWeb! If you want to create a pdf then OSX does it as part of the printing phase!
This list is a work in progress and based initially fairly heavily on the recommendations of others.
So here's my list so far.... Those that have an asterisk* [after the platforms they run on] are those apps I haven't used, but come highly recommended.****
Client Software
Operating Systems
Various versions of Linux http://www.ubuntu.com/
Edubuntu [Education version of Ubuntu]* http://www.edubuntu.org/
Word Processing
OpenOffice [Mac / Win / Lin] http://www.openoffice.org/
Bean [Mac] http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html
Neo Office [Mac]* http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
Word Processing Viewers
Open Document Viewer [Mac / Win / Lin]* http://opendocumentfellowship.com/odfviewer
Visioo-Writer [Win / Lin]* http://visioo-writer.tuxfamily.org/EN/
Presentation / Multimedia / DTP
OpenOffice [Mac / Win / Lin] http://www.openoffice.org/
Scribus [Mac / Win / Lin / Other ]* http://www.scribus.net/
Programming / Gaming
Scratch [Mac / Win] http://scratch.mit.edu/
Database
OpenOffice [Mac / Win / Lin] http://www.openoffice.org/
Spreadsheets
OpenOffice Calc [Mac / Win / Lin] http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html
Open Document Viewer [Mac / Win / Lin]* http://www.openoffice.org/
Typing
GNU Typist [Lin]* http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/
Tux Typing [Mac / Win / Lin] http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net/screens/
Primary Curriculum
GCompris - math, science, ICT skills, literacy and more. A huge suite of applications for primary ages students. Best used under Linux but also works under Windows and Mac. http://gcompris.net/-en-
Tux Paint - great for drawing and stamps [Mac / Win / Lin]* http://www.tuxpaint.org/
Tux Math - excellent adventure games based on math [Mac / Win / Lin]* http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxmath/
Childsplay - another suite of applications for young children [Win / Lin]* http://www.schoolsplay.org/
PDF
PDFCreator [Win]* http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Images
GIMP [Mac / Win / Lin]* http://www.gimp.org/
Inkscape [Win / Lin]* http://www.inkscape.org/
Paintbrush [Mac] http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/
DV /Animation
Pencil [Mac / Win / Lin] http://www.pencil-animation.org/
VLC Media Player [Mac / Win / Lin / Other ] http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Virtual Dub [Win]* http://www.virtualdub.org/
Perian [Utility for Mac Version of QuickTime] http://perian.org/
Mind Mapping / Concept Mapping
CMap Tools [Mac / Win / Lin / Other ] http://cmap.ihmc.us/
FreeMind [Mac / Win / Lin] http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Podcasting
Audacity [Mac/Win/Lin] http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Web Browsing & Authoring
Mozilla Firefox [Mac / Win / Lin] http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html
Camino [Mac] http://caminobrowser.org/
SeaMonkey [Mozilla Composer] [Win / Mac / Lin]* http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
Amaya [Win / Mac / Lin]* http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Nvu [Win / Mac / Lin]* http://www.net2.com/nvu/
Website Downloader
HTTrack [Mac / Win / Lin]* http://www.httrack.com/
SiteSucker [Mac] http://www.sitesucker.us/home.html
ScreenCasts
CamStudio [Win] * http://camstudio.org/
3D Virtual World & IWB
Eduism [beta] http://edusim3d.com/
eMail
Mozilla Thunderbird [Win / Lin]* http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
Instant Messaging
aMSN [Mac/Win/Lin]* http://www.amsn-project.net/
File Compression
7-Zip [Win]* http://www.7-zip.org/
RSS
Juice Receiver [Mac / Win / Lin]* http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/
FTP
FileZilla [Lin / Mac / Win]* http://filezilla-project.org/
Cyberduck [Mac]* http://cyberduck.ch/
Anti Virus
ClamAV [Mac / Win]* http://www.clamav.net/
ClamWin [Win]* http://www.clamwin.com/
Web Conferencing
Dimdim [Mac / Win / Lin]* http://www.dimdim.com/
Server Software
Operating System
Ubuntu Server [Lin]* http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition
Internet Cache
Squid Proxy [Mac / Win / Lin]* http://www.squid-cache.org/
Blogging
Wordpress.org [Mac / Win / Lin]* http://wordpress.org/
eMail
Squirrel Mail [Mac / Win / Lin] http://squirrelmail.org/
NMail [Lin / Win / Other]* http://nmailserver.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page
CMS
Moodle [Mac / Win / Lin]* http://moodle.org/
Joomla [Mac / Win / Lin]* http://www.joomla.org/
[ **** As with any software recommendations in my blog and websites, what I write about, is my opinion only and I take no responsibility for anything going wrong with your computer, server, network etc.. Please read the conditions and product disclosures and EULA for each application. Always exercise care and caution!]
