Free, Libre and Open Source Software solutions for Education

From Schoolforge-UK

Introduction

This is the front page of the Free and Open Source Software Directory, a user-edited collection of open source software useful to those involved in education. It is organised according to subject area and/or common tasks. You may also find educational Windows packages for which there do not appear to be any free software alternatives (yet!). If you know of a solution for such packages, please add your information. Old Page

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Administration

Careers

Collaboration & E-Learning

Collections

General

Graphics

ICT Support

Literacy

Maths

Media

Music

Networking & Infrastructure

Science

Special Education

IT & Technology

The software is also catagorised according to the platforms for which it is available. The key is as follows:

FSFW 

Free software for Windows

Linux 

Runs on Linux

Wine 

Wineis an application that replaces many of the libraries provided by windows. Here is a list of some Windows educational applications that have been tested with Wine

Web 

Web based. Usually platform independent, but often dependent on the browser type and version

MacX 

Runs on Mac OS X from Apple

Java 

Runs on any system with a Java Virtual Machine

Mobile 

Mobile devices (WindowsCE, PocketPC, Symbian, JavaME, Nokia Series 60 and other mobile platforms)

There is also growing directory of FLOSS alternatives to Windows applications at the Open Source Alternative