Linux equivalents of Windows software
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This is the list I sent to James Spedding, listing the software we actually use. Things which work more or less straight off GENERAL Internet Browser Windows: Netscape 7 Linux: Mozilla or Konqueror Email Windows: sqwebmail through web browser Linux: ditto or Mozilla with a wrapper script to set IMAP paramaters. Word Processing Windows: Word 2000 Linux: oowriter, Abiword, Kword. Spread Sheet Windows: Excel 2000 Linux: oocalc, gnumeric, kspread, siag Presentation Windows: Powerpoint 2000 Linux: ooimpress, kpresenter OTHER Exambuilder Child Development. Program is written in Java, actually loads quicker with the Linux JVM, only problem is it defaulting to US Letter paper. Things which are similar GENERAL DTP Windows: Publisher 98 Linux: oowriter (won't read publisher files, sometimes even publisher can't read its files though.) MATHS Logo Windows: MSWlogo (this is actually a Windows GPL program) Linux: ucblogo (different UI though) Graphing Windows: Omnigraph Linux: geg (no obvious way to print graphs though) Things were an equivalent isn't obvious. GENERAL MS Access 2000 CAREERS Veryan Workview Access based database for assignment of work placements. Keyclips Selection of careers leaflets. Kudos CASCAiD program for career selection. MATHS Geomat possibly kgeo will work as a replacement Cabri Geometry Geometry program MicroSMILE Set of maths games MEDIA Pinnacle Video editing software with ability to interface via firewire MUSIC Cubase Sequencer software SCIENCE Creature simulation of fox and rabbit population from www.fssc.demon.co.uk Sense and Control monitoring Set of software for interfacing to sense and control boxes. Human Torch Game to teach forensic techniques from the Association for Science Education SEN SpellStar Program to help with spelling and store data for each user. Wellington Square Set of multi-media matarial for slow learning students. TECHNOLOGY Quickroute PCB design program from www.quickroute.co.uk apparently now superceded by Electronic Design Studio Interactive Control Simulation of an 8 bit I/O control box operated by programs in a BBC Basic like language. Revolution PICAXE programming PIC chips using a form of Basic Modela Software from TechSoft for 3d drawing Crocodile Clips Simulation of electrical circuits with drag and drop interface. Poem Embroider Software for design and operation of CNC Embroidery machines Prodesktop 3D drawing and design Eat me Software to design for printer fitted with food dye and edible paper. (www.eatmesoftware.com) -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tuesday 08 April 2003 11:01, Mark Evans wrote:
Things were an equivalent isn't obvious.
GENERAL
MS Access 2000
You could take a look at kexi, http://www.koffice.org/kexi. At the moment you'll have to grab it out of CVS I think, or use one of the snapshot tarballs on ftp.kde.org somewhere.
MATHS
Geomat possibly kgeo will work as a replacement
KGeo is dead and it didn't have a maintainer; a fully functioning replacement called Kig is in its place. Its web site is http://edu.kde.org/kig.
MEDIA
Pinnacle Video editing software with ability to interface via firewire
There are various video editing programs, one which comes to mind is Kino.
MUSIC
Cubase Sequencer software
Rosegarden maybe.
TECHNOLOGY
Quickroute PCB design program from www.quickroute.co.uk apparently now superceded by Electronic Design Studio
chris@galadriel:~$ apt-cache search pcb pcb - Printed Circuit Board Design Program gerbv - Gerber file viewer for PCB design Don't know how good they are though. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 33795A2C KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://printing.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+kr4TF8Iu1zN5WiwRAugKAJ41qEqMr+fptkxZi7WscxTap6WjagCeJZ/5 o/n/73pHJg4K2+i1vawbSNQ= =00VH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
TECHNOLOGY
Quickroute PCB design program from www.quickroute.co.uk apparently now superceded by Electronic Design Studio
chris@galadriel:~$ apt-cache search pcb pcb - Printed Circuit Board Design Program gerbv - Gerber file viewer for PCB design
Don't know how good they are though.
For PCB CAD also try Eagle, the lite version is free (not tried the linux edition, but very good) http://www.cadsoft.de/cgi-bin/download.pl?page=/home/cadsoft/html_public/dow nload.htm.en&dir=pub/program/4.0
For PCB CAD also try Eagle, the lite version is free (not tried the linux edition, but very good) Agreed - great software. Similarly, I've only used the Windows version, but it is great software and more than capable of dealing with anything schools are
On Tuesday 08 April 2003 12:51 pm, adrian.wells wrote: likely to need to do. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll
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