Open Source Software For Education

with Elliot Jordan

1. Background and History of Open Source 2. Progress and Trends3. Examples 4. Resources-Projects/Applications

Oh by the way...

ThisIsn't

Powerpoint

So what is “Open Source”?

Information that may be viewed, modified, copiedand 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, creativityand productivity.

Let's have a (open source) beer

Our recipeRecipe 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 maltThe malt is crushed and put in 55-60°C hot water for 1-2

hours.The mixture is filtered and the liquid now contains about

10 kg malt extract.

Who uses it?

PARIS

Chicago

MUNICH

Banks

Stock Exchanges

Small Businesses Universities

UtilityCompanies

DMV

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

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.

Open Source rising...

Approximately 60% of all web servers run Apache

Apache

IIS

Web Servers Worldwide

Anecdotes In The News

The FAA/DOT is considering Linux over Vista/IEDell to sell PC's / Laptops with Linux pre-installedHP considers LinuxMicrosoft makes deal with Novell re Open SourceNovartis 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”.

Open Source Forefathers

Linus TorvaldsRichard StallmanEric Raymond

A Fresh Desktop Look

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

Dedicated To -

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

WINDOWSandLINUXandMAC

Dual, Triple Boot Live CD Virtual Machines

Xen VMWare Parallels Workstation Bootcamp OpenVZ

So how do they make money?

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

Important Sites

sourceforge.netschoolforge.netnewsforge.net

distrowatch.comfreshmeat.net

The GUI and the Command Line

Everyone wants computers to be easy-nice menus, buttons andtoolbars 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.

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.

“It's easy to use”, my cousin says..

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

Applications

Proprietary Open SourceWindows Linux, Solaris, BSDIIS ApacheInternet Explorer FirefoxOutlook ThunderbirdOffice OpenOfficePhotoshop GIMP, GimpshopIllustrator Inkscape, CinepaintQuark, Publisher ScribusMaya, 3DS MAX Blender3D, k-3dFinal Cut, Premiere Cinelerra, Kino, LivesTIVO MythTVThe Phone Company Asterisk PBXMavis Beacon TuxTypeMS SQL Server, Oracle MySQL, PostgresqlCisco Routers Vyatta, XORP

More....(google them if nec.)Proprietary Open SourceDreamweaver NVU, Athana, Amaya Flash GnashSoundforge Audacity, JokosherMP3 Ogg Vorbis WM player, Real, QT VLC, Mplayer, Xine, XMMSWebCT, Blackboard Moodle, Alfresco, Joomla,

Drupal,Plone, ZopeNotes, Exchange Zimbra.NET Java,LAMP, PHP, Perl, Python, RubyHP OpenView, Tivoli OpenNMS, GroundworkQuicken Gnucash, gnumericDesktop Search BeagleAnconia Wordpress, XAMPPiPhoto, ACDSee f-spot, digikamCheckpoint Smoothwall, Monowall, IPCopMS Project openworkbench, mrprojectVoice/Video Conferencing ekiga, Xconnect (mac)

Even more...

Celtx, scribes text editors, script writing Krecipes, largorecipes

Little Wizard

For Networking / Security

Nessus Snort Kismet, Kismac Nmap Tcpdump Ethereal

CREATIVITY!2D animation - ktoon

Design web pages with Amaya, NVU

Making Music

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

Ardour

Novelties

Kreetingkardlinuxgames.com

ogre3Dktuberling

Over 11,000 open source projects An application for just about any purpose

VARIETY!!

ENJOY!!