Free home education uk software for linux

OpenEuclide is a geometry software that can produce geometrical figures by adding preformed objects one at a time.

OpenEuclide is an opensource multi-platform 2D geometry software. Figures are defined dynamically by describing formal geometrical constraints. This project is a basic tool for educational or modeling purpose that aims to be extended as far as possible in response to user needs. May it involve users talents in C++ programming.

Supported languages are : English and French.

The goal is now to make a robust, easy to use, totally multiplatform software (no runtime environment needed), featured for education until high school (excluded).

Myrinix - Digital Home Edition is meant to be a smart and centralized OS that can be implemented in a home environment.
Myrinix Digital Home Edition can be connected to a TV or other large screen to record and play DVD movies and surf the Internet. It also implements video sharing with the NX technology, and includes the videolan program for broadcasting video or music throughout the network.
Diskless client computers can connect with the server as it performs other tasks. Myrinix - Digital Home Edition is a bootable CD derived from Kanotix.
Enhancements:
- This release fixed a DBUS hang at startup on some computers and detection of USB drives as home at startup.
- An easy USB portable drive installer was added along with a locale changer for quick and easy language changes.

Bodington is a free open source Virtual Learning Environment/Learning Management System in use at Universities and Colleges worldwide.

The Bodington project exists to provide an open source environment to support learning, teaching and research.

Bodington project is particularly suitable for complex, multi-disciplinary and large organisations and for inter institutional collaboration. It delivers controlled access using open standards.

Bodington can be used to support teaching and learning across the entire range of learning institutions in the UK and worldwide. Current installations include the Universities of Leeds, Oxford, Manchester; UHI Millennium Institute, Eton College, Yorkshire Coast College and St Andrews College Singapore.

Bodington enables users to upload lecture notes, host discussion fora, publish and manage external links, create interactive resources, e.g. customised logbooks, peer-reviewed reflective diaries/e-portfolios (for PDP), multiple choice tests (QTI), short-answer papers and online surveys. Students can also port work into secure pigeon-holes for marking.

Choose Bodington...

Put material on the web quickly and easily.
Control access to material quickly and easily.
Brand and customise for local look and feel.
Run servers on Microsoft, Linux, UNIX, or Mac OS X platforms.
Run a reliable and scalable service for end users.
Run services for tens of thousands of registered users.
Give access to users on any platform using standard browsers.
Be part of a growing, thriving development community.
Help shape future functionality.
Use software that is built specifically for Further and Higher Education.
Integrate access with partner organisations using built-in Shibboleth functionality.
Keep in line with the JISC e-learning framework.
Customise the source code to meet local needs.
Free up more funds to support staff development, customisation, help desk etc.

Choose other software...

Be tied down to a fixed pedagogy.
Fail in your obligation to support users with disabilities.
Pay an annual licence fee.
Pay for upgrades and support services.
Have little or no influence on future functionality

OggCarton is a free, open source, home jukebox system that rips, indexes, and manages playlists for Ogg Vorbis music files.
Includes a web server for playing files on your home network. Compatible with existing MP3 files.

DVD Home Video Project is a tool that provides a simple, quick way to transform video on a DV camcorder into a fully functional DVD, including a menu with optional background images and music.

kearone provides icon pack for gnome based on my "kearones icons"
Version restrictions:
- think it could be improved with a more consistent Computer icon, and some black contour around the file type icons (just like the Home and Trash).

Linux-EduCD is a Polish live DVD based on KANOTIX, with focus on education, graphics, office, multimedia and software development.
Main features:
- addition of the Compiz desktop;
- integration of GParted into the hard disk installer;
- new boot options;
- Linux kernel 2.6.18 with extra drivers and modules;
- KDE 3.5.5;
- OpenOffice.org 2.0.4;
- a range of educational software (Celestia, OpenDX, PyMOL, Rasmol, DrGeo, Yacas); multimedia applications (GIMP 2.2.13, Blender 2.42, Amarok, Audacity, Xine); network and system administration software (Wireshark, Nessus, Iptraf, EtherApe, Cheops);
- new development packages (DrScheme, Ruby, VisualPython, GPS, GNAT, Glade)