Free education software for linux

Edubuntu is a version of the Ubuntu operating system suitable for classroom use. As an educator youll be able to set up a computer lab, or establish an online learning environment, in an hour or less -- then administer that environment without having to become a fully-fledged Linux geek.

Edubuntu is currently under development by the same development team that produces the wildly popular Ubuntu system. Edubuntu a customized version of Ubuntu.

Principal design goals of Edubuntu are centralized management of configuration, users, and processes, together with facilities for working collaboratively in a classroom setting. Equally important is the gathering together of the best available free software and digital materials for education.

OrangeHRM comes as a comprehensive solution for the efficient management and development of your Human Resource. The project will assist you in the complex and strategic process of managing this crucial resource of your enterprise.
Based on modular architecture, it facilitates a vastrange of HR activities, with features that reflect the main HR management activities. It comes as a web-enabled application and considering the available flexibility, OrangeHRM is a perfect platform for reengineering your HR processes and achieving a new level of HR Management.
OrangeHRM is emerging in line with the new generation of HR Information Systems (HRIS) and will assist you in managing your companys most important asset - human resource. Based on modular architecture, this comprehensive Open Source solution reflects the main areas of HR Management from simple personnel administration to todays complex strategic approaches.
Orange HRM, which is applicable to diverse business industries, is a perfect platform for re-engineering your HR processes and redefining the workflow operations of HR professionals, paving the way to a new level of HR Management.
Administration Module (Admin)
The part of the system where the HR Manager or other appointed personnel perform all system administration tasks. This include defining company structure, pay grades and other information that serves as the backbone for the rest of the system. Security issues are taken care of through this module as well by defining user rights.
Features:
- Define Company Info (General Information, Company Structure, Locations)
- Define Job information (Job titles, Pay Grades, Employment Statuses, EEO Job Categories)
- Define Qualification Information (Education, Licenses)
- Define Skills (Skills, Languages)
- Define Meberships and Membership types
- Define Nationalities & Races
- Define Users
Personal Information Manager Module (PIM)
This core module maintains all relevant employee related information, including different types of personal information, detailed qualifications and work experience, job related information etc. Picture of employee is included as well. Information captured in this module is utilized by all other modules, thus eliminating data redundancy.
Features :
- Personal information (Date of birth, SSN, nationality, ethnic race etc.)
- Color picture
- Contact details
- Emergency Contact(s)
- Dependents
- Immigration details (Passport & Visa info)
- Job information
- Payment details (Pay Grade & Salary)
- Employee reporting structure (Assign Supervisor)
- Work Experience
- Education details
- Skills
- Assign Languages
- Assign Licenses
- Assign Memberships
- Attachments
Employee Self Service Module (ESS)
Employee self service is a powerful tool providing employees of the company with the ability to view relevant information such as personal information, updating personal information with web - enabled PC without having to hassle the HR staff.
The functionality of this module spans through the entire system, making information available anywhere, anytime. Of course all information is subject to company defined security policy, where everyone can only view the information he/she is authorized to. Time and cost saving effects from this solution are tremendous.
Reports Module
This feature produces customized reports according to your needs. Any number of reports can be defined by selecting from a range of search criteria and report fields. Report definitions can be saved to avoid repeating this task. Once the report definition is saved, the report can be generated by providing the required criteria data
Leave Module
A comprehensive leave management module, with extensive possibilities of defining leave types and more. It caters for all application and approval processes and is able to display information on leave entitlement, balance, history etc. Thanks to the web-enabled and self-service concepts, it significantly streamlines all leave related procedures, eliminates paperwork and saves costs.

Fire Encrypter is an Firefox extension which gives you encryption/decryption and hashing functionality right from your Firefox browser, mostly useful for developers or for education & fun.
The new FireEncrypter is ready! (v-3.0, this version contains the following ciphers:
- AES (Rijndael 128Bit)
- Affine
- Caesar
- XOR
- OTP (One Time Pad)
- Vigenere
- Rail Fence
- Morse Encoder
- MD2 Hashing
- MD5 Hashing
- SHA1 Hashing
- SHA256 Hashing
- SHA384 Hashing
- SHA512 Hashing
- Secure password generator.

Elgg: the Learning Landscape is a community building platform written in PHP for MySQL and Apache.
It gives you the tools to create active and vibrant learning communities, featuring Weblogging, podcasting, social networking, file storage, tag searching, customised user themes, gettext multi-language support, and more.
Users can control exactly who has access to each bit of their profile, each blog post, file, etc., and then search using tags to find other resources and people related to the same topic.
Although originally designed for education, it has a broad range of uses in a variety of different settings.
Enhancements:
- Generalised comments
- Bugfixes, efficiency improvements

With the ease of modifying Slax to create a custom cd, you can have a live cd with your Asterisk install on it, doing whatever you need a pbx to do. Slast is great for demonstrating/testing Asterisk, learning Asterisk, and with the loading into ram, you can have a very powerful backup if your Asterisk box were to go down.

Slax is modular, so we hope to have a repository of user submitted modules here for you to add to your personal Slast cd.

If you want to help with anything from website design to creating modules and writing documentation, please contact droops (at) gmail to volunteer.

Why Another Distro?

This is a good question. We think that this has a place for 2 reasons, education of Asterisk and custom Asterisk live-cds. The config files have been moved and only the necessary ones remain. They have been rewritten to make getting Asterisk working, for the newcomer, the top priority.

Geomview is an interactive 3D viewing program for Unix. Geomview lets you view and manipulate three-dimensional objects: you use the mouse to rotate, translate, zoom in and out, and so on.

Geomview can be used as a standalone viewer for static objects or as a display engine for other programs which produce dynamically changing geometry. Geomview can display objects described in a variety of file formats. Geomview comes with a wide selection of example objects, and you can create your own objects too.

Geomview runs on most Unix platforms, including GNU/Linux. Geomview can run under Microsoft Windows using Cygwin. Geomview is free software available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (GPL).

You can also use Geomview to handle the display of data coming from another program that is running simultaneously. As the other program changes the data, the Geomview image reflects the changes. Programs that generate objects and use Geomview to display them are called external modules. External modules can control almost all aspects of Geomview. The idea here is that many aspects of the display and interaction parts of geometry software are independent of the geometric content and can be collected together in a single piece of software that can be used in a wide variety of situations. The author of the external module can then concentrate on implementing the desired algorithm and leave the display aspects to Geomview. Geomview comes with a collection of sample external modules, and the manual describes how to write your own.

Geomview allows multiple independently controllable objects and cameras. It provides interactive control for motion, appearances (including lighting, shading, and materials), picking on an object, edge or vertex level, snapshots in many image file, PostScript, or Renderman RIB format, and adding or deleting objects is provided through direct mouse manipulation, control panels, and keyboard shortcuts.

Geomview supports the following simple data types: polyhedra with shared vertices (.off), quadrilaterals, rectangular meshes, vectors, and Bezier surface patches of arbitrary degree including rational patches. Object hierarchies can be constructed with lists of objects and instances of object(s) transformed by one or many 4x4 matrices. Arbitrary portions of changing hierarchies may be transmitted by creating named references.

The full specification for object file formats is in the OOGL (Object Oriented Graphics Language) Reference section of the Geomview manual. If you already have Geomview you might want to try out the OOGL tutorial.

Geomview can be used as a Mathematica graphics output device; this makes viewing Mathematica graphics much more interactive. The same is true for Maple. Geomview began as an effort at the Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota to provide interactive geometry software which is particularly appropriate for mathematics research and education. In particular, Geomview can display objects in hyperbolic and spherical space as well as Euclidean space.