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Open Source & Free Software for Education

Why should open source software be used in schools?

Free Software Advocacy and Politics Danny Ye

Why ``Free Software'' is better than ``Open Source'' GNU Project

The Free Software Foundation

Ooen Education Wiki

Schools Cyberknights

What is Free Software? What is Open Source? Free Software

The Free Software Definition GNU Project

Free software Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Why schools should use exclusively free software Richard Stallman GNU Project home pag

Open Access News News from the open access movement, a.k.a. the free online scholarship (FOS) movement

OSDA Initiative SAGE-AU System Administrators Guild of Australia

Open Source Western Australia

Open Source Industry Australia

Asian Open Source Centre

School forge Working together to unleash the power of open source tools in education

Open Channel Foundation Publishing Open Source Software from Academic and Research Institutions

open source for libraries

Open Source Initiative (OSI)

K12 Open Source in Schools

Open Resources for Schools.Softpanorama: (slightly skeptical) Open Source Software Educational Society

OSDN The Open Source Development Network

SourceForge Open Source software development website

Releasing Free Software if you work at a University Richard Stallman

opensource.org

Open Source Content Management System

Free Software, Open Source Resources for Schools for Students, Teachers and Schools School-Library.Net

Browsers

Mozilla

Firefox Mozilla

Compilers

GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection

Databases

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Debugger

GDB: The GNU Project Debugger

Encyclopedia

Wikipedia

The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource Richard Stallman

Graphics

Gimp

Flash Alternatives

Powerbullet Presenter Free and paid versions

Towards Open Source Flash Development Carlos Rovira Action Script

Programming Languages

Perl

Python

Mail

Thunderbird

Operating System

Linux Australia

Linux

Linux in Schools Project

Society of Linux Professionals (Western Australia)

GNU Project

Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Wikipedia

 

Servers

Apache HTTP Server

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) Nameserver

Samba Fileserver

SendMail Mailserver

Web Design

NVU

Open Source Web Design

 

Windowing

XFree86

Word Processing

Abiword

Jarte

OpenOffice

NeoOffice for Mac

Linux Word Processing