Education/Applications/Best Of

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Here's a subjective list of "Best of Bread" applications for educational usage. Feel free to discuss about the packages listed here in our IRC Channel #opensuse-edu on irc.freenode.net or on our mailinglist opensuse-edu@opensuse.org.

3D

• Art of illusion - a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio
• Blender (blender) - A powerful software program for 3D modeling, animation, rendering

Astro

• Celestia (celestia) - An OpenGL Space Simulator

Audio

• Audacity (audacity) - A powerful digital audio editor

BitTorrent

• Azureus - Azureus implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features

Editor

• Abiword - an award winning, small, fast, featureful and crossplatform word processor

Edu-Admin

• FET - open source free software for automatically scheduling the timetable of a school, high-school or university
• KeePass - KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way
• Open Admin for Schools - a School Administration Program.
• openSIS - a free student information system for public and non-public schools. 

Educational

• Little Wizard (littlewizard) - Development Environment for Children based on Pascal
• Multiplication Station (MultiplicationStation) - Add, subtract and multiply exercises

Edu game

• Childsplay (childsplay) - An educational software suite for young children
• GCompris (gcompris) - An educational software suite for young children
• jMemorize (jMemorize) - A general purpose flash card program
• TuxType (tuxtype) - An educational typing tutor for children
• TuxMath (tuxmath) - An educational math tutor game
• TuxMathScrabble (TuxMathScrabble) - Add, subtract and multiply in a scrabble like game
• TuxWordSmith (TuxWordSmith) - Learn languages in a scrabble like game

File

• Filezilla -  fast and reliable FTP client and server
• TrueCrypt - Free open-source disk encryption software

Image

• GIMP (gimp) - A powerful raster graphics editor
• Inkscape (inkscape) - A powerful vector graphics editor

Project Management

• GanttProject - a free and easy to use Gantt chart based project scheduling and management tool

RSS

• RSSOwl - RSS reader that collects data from RSS-compliant sites

Score

• MuseScore (musescore) - A WYSIWYG music score typesetter

Special

• AMANDA - the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system

Video

• Avidemux - a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks
• CamStudio - record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files
• Cinerella - Cinelerra does primarily 3 things: capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video with sample level accuracy. It's a movie studio in a box.
• DVDStyler - a cross-platform DVD authoring application
• VLC Media Player - a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats 

Vizualize

• Dia (dia) - A diagram creation program

VPN

• openVPN - a full-featured SSL VPN solution which can accomodate a wide range of configurations, including remote access, site-to-site VPNs, WiFi security, and enterprise-scale remote access solutions 

Web Publish

• eXe eLearning (exelearning) - An eLearning XHTML editor

Web-Based

• Asymptopia Crossword Builder - a JavaScript education application that runs in any modern internet browser
• Claroline - a Web Based Course Management System. It allows teachers (professors, lecturers...) to create and administer course websites through a browser
• ClaSS - A complete student tracking, reporting and information management system
• Koha - Koha Classic sets the standard in open-source library automation.
• Sakai -  includes many of the features common to course management systems, including document distribution, a gradebook, discussion, live chat, assignment uploads, and online testing.
• School Tool - will eventually take care of all aspects of school administration