Why Free Software Matters in Education?

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1 Promoting and Supporting Free / Open Source Software in Education since 2003 Why Free Software Matters in Education? (Because, Free Software Based Education Assures 100% Employability Skills for Students & Provides Freedom from Huge Software Licensing Cost for Institutions) Does Your Institution Still Using / Paying for Costly Proprietary / Commercial Closed Source Software? It's Time for Educational Institutions to Migrate to Free / Open Source Software (FOSS) Currently more than 100,000+ Applications are available as Free/Open Source Software, an Estimated Development Cost of more than 10 Billion US$, Developed by more than 10 Million Developers across Internet over 30+ Years GNU/Linux Operating System The Operating System of the 21st Century for Education ( )

Paying for Costly Proprietary / Commercial Closed Source Software?

2 Fedora-18 Linux KDE Desktop More than 30,000+ Packages Available in Fedora-18 Linux

3 No. OS / Application Types Proprietary Software Free / Open Source Software 1 Operating System Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 2003, 2008 GNU/Linux, BSD UNIX (Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian,OpenSuSE, CentOS, Mandriva, LinuxMint, FreeBSD, NetBSD etc) 2 Office Applications Microsoft Office XP / 2003 / 2007 / 2010 / 365 OpenOffice.Org 3.5, LibreOffice Databases Microsoft SQL, Oracle MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite 4 Graphics Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash GIMP, Inkscape, Skencil, XFig, Pencil 5 2D Animation Anime Studio SynFig Studio, Linux Multimedia Studio, KToon 6 3D-Animation 3DS Max, Maya Blender, K3D, Cal3D 7 Flow Chart Smart Draw Dia Diagram Editor 8 Multimedia Windows Media Player, WinAmp, RealPlayer VLC, Amarok, GStreamer, RhythomBox,Bino 9 Internet Browsers Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera Firefox, Chromium (Google Chrome, Opera) 10 Chat Messengers Google Talk, Y! Messenger, MSN Live amsn, Empathy, Pidgin, GYache 11 Audio Editing GoldWave Audacity, RoseGarden, Ardour 12 Video Editing Adobe Premiere AVIDemux, Kino, KDENLive, Pitivi, Cinelerra 13 Case Tools Rational Rose Umbrello, Argo-UML, BOUML, Eclipse IDE 14 CD / DVD Burning Nero, Roxio K3B, Brasero 15 PDF Viewer / Editors Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat Evince, Okular, XPDF, PDF Tools,PDF Jam 16 CAD / CAM AutoCAD QCAD, gcad3d, LibreCAD (DraftSight) 17 C / C++ Programming Turbo C++ / Borland C++ GCC with CodeBlocks IDE, NetBeans IDE 18 Java Programming Sun JDK with JCreator Sun JDK with Eclipse, NetBeans IDE 19 Visual Programming Microsoft Visual Studio / Microsoft VS.NET Mono Project, Nokia Qt, GTK+ 20 Web Programming ASP, ASP.NET PHP, PERL, Python, Ruby-on-Rails 21 Application Programming Visual Basic Python, Nokia Qt, GTK+ 22 Scientific Computing Matlab Octave, Scilab, MayaVi (3D Data Visualization) 23 Desktop Publishing Adobe Pagemaker Scribus 24 HRM Microsoft Dynamics OrangeHRM 25 ERP SAP, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Dynamics WebERP, OpenBravo, Compiere

0 3 Databases Microsoft SQL, Oracle MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite 4 Graphics Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash GIMP, Inkscape, Skencil, XFig, Pencil 5 2D Animation Anime Studio SynFig Studio,

4 26 CRM SAP, SalesForce, Oracle CRM SugarCRM, vtigercrm, egroupware 27 Network Simulator GloMoSim, OPNet NS/2, NS/3, GNS-3 28 Compression Tool Winzip, WinRAR File Roller, 7-Zip 29 Graphic Visualization Inspiration, 3D Topicscape GraphViz (Graph Visualization Software) 30 Statistical Computing SPSS, S-PLUS R-Project, GNU-PSPP 31 Mind Mapping Software Microsoft's Visio, MindMapper VYM (View Your Mind), FreeMind 32 Solid Modeling / 3D CAD SolidWorks, AutoCAD 2011, Pro/E BRL-CAD, FreeCAD 33 Electronic Design Automation / OrCAD, Micro-Cap, MultiSim, ViewLogic Circuit Simulators QUCS, Alliance, Electric, geda, GHDL, KiCAD TkGate, ngspice, KTechLab, Xcircuit, Icarus 34 Assembly Language Tools Turbo Assember (TASM) Microsoft Assember (MASM) 8085 GNUSim8085, 8051 SDCC 8086 GNU Assembler (gas), NASM 35 Web Development Tool Macromedia Dreamweaver Aptana Studio, Quanta Plus, BlueFish Editor 36 Application Server IBM WebSphere Apache Tomcat, JBOSS Application Server 37 Web Server Microsoft IIS Web Server Apache HTTPD Web Server, Cherokee, NGINX 38 Instrumentation Engineering / Process Control Automation National Instruments LabView Proview (Open Source Process Control) OpenScada (Data Acquisition / Visualization) 39 VHDL, FPGA & ASIC Xilinx FPGA / CPLD Software OpenCores (Open Source IP Cores) 40 Virtualization Software VMWare VirtualBox, XEN, KVM, QEMU Emulator 41 Data Mining WEKA (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis) 42 Flight Simulator Flight Gear Flight Simulator 43 Cloud Computing OpenStack 44 Data Analysis & Visualization LabPlot 45 Documentation Typesetting Tex, Latex, Kile

(View Your Mind), FreeMind 32 Solid Modeling / 3D CAD SolidWorks, AutoCAD 2011, Pro/E BRL-CAD, FreeCAD 33 Electronic Design Automation / OrCAD, Micro-Cap, MultiSim, ViewLogic Circuit Simulators QUCS,

5 LXS FOSS LAB SERVER The FOSS Lab Server is Designed and Developed as per the Requirement of Anna University Syllabus Regulation (Subject Code: CS2406 / CS77 - Open Source Lab) A Complete Infrastructure and Platform to Support Research Based Collaborative Learning in Higher Education 2013, The FOSS Lab Server is Designed and Developed by LinuXpert Systems More than 50,000 Free Software + Source Code + Documentation for Learning & Research S. Baskar / Chief Executive Officer New No.1, Vembuliamman Koil Street Pazhavanthangal, Chennai Cell: , E mail: baskar@linuxpert.in is fun the unsung heroes/ selvaraj interview foss power in 170 tamil college labs/

Free Software + Source Code + Documentation for Learning & Research S. Baskar / Chief Executive Officer New No.

How To Use Open Source Software In Government

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