Free and Open Source Educational Software

Free and Open Source Educational Software

Website Overview: OSWINS DVD is a collection of Free and Open Source software for educational use that run on Windows. The OSWINS DVD is a collection of educational software from mathematics to music, from science to graphics, from programming to educational games, office tools, business software, networking tools and security software. The aim of this website is to make finding the software easier by categorising them by Key Learning Areas used in Education in Australia. In addition, under each category, links to useful websites that provide information or free resources are listed.

How to use this website: Files can be accessed using the category index below or accessed via the file tree structure on the DVD image using a file or web browser. Many of the applications are self extracting archives which install the software. Some applications are packaged into archives which have to be opened first before installation will proceed. The symbol indicates you can download the software directly from the DVD and the symbol indicates the home site for the software. Tools to create archives and extract files are located in the misc tools folder. Printer friendly version of this document

OSWINS DVD Table of Contents: Key Learning Areas

This DVD is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Please refer to each package for its software license. The Licenses used on this DVD include:
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The OSWINS DVD was designed to be about 1.4GBytes so that it could fit onto a pocket size DVD or USB drive. You can download the OSWINS DVD (or two CDs - OSWINS CD and OSWKIDS CD) from http://os.cqu.edu.au/pub/iso. For further information about educational software visit the Centre for OpenSource Development taxonomy web site at http://os.cqu.edu.au/cosd.
The OS-school-DVD is a combination of several CD and DVDs namely the OSWINS-DVD and the ADIOS-CDs. These are described at http://os.cqu.edu.au/oswinsdvd and http://os.cqu.edu.au/adios and you can download the latest copies of these CD and DVDs from http://os.cqu.edu.au/pub/iso.
Try software first: The ADIOS CDs (included on the OS School DVD) can be used to demonstrate open source software without the need to install. To do this you reboot your computer from the DVD and it will start Linux (requires 512MB of RAM). It may take a few minutes due to the size of the image. Alternatively install QEMU software and then run Linux within Windows (requires 1GB or RAM, for more information see ADIOS-README.txt). The default Linux image runs in RAM and from DVD and does not use the hard disc drive. Linux will start the KDE or XFCE desktop, this will allow you to run hundreds of applications such as Leocad (toy bricks in 3D), Blender (3D modelling, animation and rendering) and Kstars (planetarium). The Live Linux CD component also provides non Linux users exposure to software which is not available on Windows. For more informations about what is on the ADIOS CDs see adioscds.html or visit the ADIOS web site at http://os.cqu.edu.au/adios for other themed CD versions of ADIOS.

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