Open Source Software For Education

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Open Source Software For Education

• with Elliot Jordan
• 1. Background and History of Open Source
• 2. Progress and Trends
• 3. Examples
• 4. Resources-Projects/Applications

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Oh by the way...

• This
• Isn't
• Powerpoint

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So what is Open Source?

• Information that may be viewed, modified, copied
• and redistributed freely so that it is available
  to new innovations and contributions from a
  worldwide community of developers.
• It's a well-spring of imagination, creativity
• and productivity.

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Let's have a (open source) beer

• Our recipe
• Recipe for approx. 85 ltr. Vores Øl (Our Beer)
  (approx. 6 alchohol by volume).
• For Vores Øl we use four types malted barley
• 6 kg pilsner malt
• 4 kg münsner malt
• 1 kg caramel malt
• 1 kg lager malt
• The malt is crushed and put in 55-60C hot water
  for 1-2 hours.
• The mixture is filtered and the liquid now
  contains about 10 kg malt extract.

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Who uses it?
DMV
Utility Companies
Banks
Stock Exchanges
MUNICH
PARIS
Chicago
Small Businesses
Universities
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Strengths and Advantages

• Worldwide community driven
• It has become very user friendly
• Cost-effective (free)?
• It may be adapted to your needs
• Source code may be viewed and changed
• Runs well on old hardware
• Resource efficient, secure and stable
• Adheres to common industry standards

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Strengths and Advantages

• Vast hardware support
• Especially good on old retired hardware
• Getting more stable and secure
• Includes state of the art technology
• Updated often
• 1000's of apps for all purposes
• Embraces open standards-no vendor lock-in.

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Open Source rising...
Approximately 60 of all web servers run Apache
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Anecdotes In The News

• The FAA/DOT is considering Linux over Vista/IE
• Dell to sell PC's / Laptops with Linux
  pre-installed
• HP considers Linux
• Microsoft makes deal with Novell re Open Source
• Novartis will give away information it has on
  genetic code associated with Diabetes.
  It's better if a lot of companies can
  analyze this data rather than keep it secret.

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Open Source Forefathers
Linus Torvalds Richard Stallman Eric Raymond
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A Fresh Desktop Look
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A Linux for this and that(some of the best)?

• Ubuntu popular Debian based
• Suse full featured, just acquired by Novell
• PCLinuxOS fork of Mandrake
• MEPIS well designed, it just works
• Slackware an old standard, pure Linux
• Gentoo custom compiles all apps
• Knoppix good utility loaded for fixing stuff
• Red Hat/Fedora enterprise level Linux
• Rpath has innovative package manager
• Damn Small, Puppy only 50-200mb

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Dedicated To -

• Video
• Audio
• TIVO recording
• Telephony PBX Switch
• Security Firewall
• Home Automation
• Enterprise Server

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WINDOWSandLINUXandMAC

• Dual, Triple Boot
• Live CD
• Virtual Machines
• Xen
• VMWare
• Parallels Workstation
• Bootcamp
• OpenVZ

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So how do they make money?

• Accepting contributions
• Selling related merchandise
• Selling Support (biggest source)?
• Get bought out by another company

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Important Sites

• sourceforge.net
• schoolforge.net
• newsforge.net
• distrowatch.com
• freshmeat.net

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The GUI and the Command Line
Everyone wants computers to be easy-nice menus,
buttons and toolbars to click on. The trend is to
gui-fy everything. Most administrative tasks in
Linux (or BSD) may be done with via a GUI.
Some tasks are still done more efficiently via
the command line. Still other more complex or
involved tasks may also require it.
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Why you shouldn't use Linux

• You (must) use Quicken
• You (must) use other proprietary applications
• You don't like to read documentation
• You like running antivirus/spyware scans
• You enjoy blue screens every so often
• You buy into the for techs only stigma
• You'll miss defragging too much.

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It's easy to use, my cousin says..

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Education Resources

• schoolforge.com
• schooltool.org
• scholarpack.org
• k12ltsp.org
• ltsp.org
• http//www.filegate.net/linux4kids/
• claroline.net
• openschoolsalliance.org
• opensourceconsortium.org
• schoolbell.com
• osef.org

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Applications

• Proprietary Open Source
• Windows Linux, Solaris, BSD
• IIS Apache
• Internet Explorer Firefox
• Outlook Thunderbird
• Office OpenOffice
• Photoshop GIMP, Gimpshop
• Illustrator Inkscape, Cinepaint
• Quark, Publisher Scribus
• Maya, 3DS MAX Blender3D, k-3d
• Final Cut, Premiere Cinelerra, Kino, Lives
• TIVO MythTV
• The Phone Company Asterisk PBX
• Mavis Beacon TuxType
• MS SQL Server, Oracle MySQL, Postgresql
• Cisco Routers Vyatta, XORP

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More....(google them if nec.)?

• Proprietary Open Source
• Dreamweaver NVU, Athana, Amaya
• Flash Gnash
• Soundforge Audacity, Jokosher
• MP3 Ogg Vorbis
• WM player, Real, QT VLC, Mplayer, Xine,
  XMMS
• WebCT, Blackboard Moodle, Alfresco, Joomla,
  Drupal,Plone, Zope
• Notes, Exchange Zimbra
• .NET
  Java,LAMP, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby
• HP OpenView, Tivoli OpenNMS, Groundwork
• Quicken Gnucash, gnumeric
• Desktop Search Beagle
• Anconia Wordpress, XAMPP
• iPhoto, ACDSee f-spot, digikam
• Checkpoint Smoothwall, Monowall, IPCop
• MS Project openworkbench, mrproject
• Voice/Video Conferencing ekiga,
  Xconnect (mac)?

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Even more...

• Celtx, scribes text editors, script writing
• Krecipes, largorecipes

Little Wizard
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For Networking / Security

• Nessus
• Snort
• Kismet, Kismac
• Nmap
• Tcpdump
• Ethereal

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CREATIVITY!

• 2D animation - ktoon

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Design web pages with Amaya, NVU
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Making Music

• Rosegarden
• Jack
• Audacity
• Timidity
• Plork
• frinika.com
• zinf.org
• solfege.org

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Ardour
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Novelties

• Kreetingkard
• linuxgames.com
• ogre3D
• ktuberling

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VARIETY!!

• Over 50,000 open source projects
• An application for just about any purpose

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ENJOY!!