Hi Rajeev, [Via Mel because I didn't receive Rajeev's original message.]
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:04:14 -0500 Mel Chua <[email protected]> wrote: > Rajeev, > > You mentioned using Ubuntu (which is a mighty fine distro!) but I would > also suggest checking out Fedora's remix capability > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Remix, and Sebastian in particular knows > way more about it than I do, as do others on this list). Basically, you > can create an image with a custom package set, and have a > livecd/liveusb/etc with all the programs you want preinstalled already. > > As for suggestions, my subset is below. > > > Analytics: R, > > Not sure if this is still within what you're looking for, but octave, scipy? There's also scilab: http://www.scilab.org/ and Sage math - http://www.sagemath.org/ . The latter has some issues such as not having a proper GUI interface, but rather a web-interface, as well as not running properly on Windows. It's also a mish-mash of many existing technologies, and not too integrated. > > > Graphic Design (2D): GIMPshop, Cenon > > Inkscape. Definitely inkscape. > Inkscape is definitely great, but I would strongly recommend against GIMPshop, which was a hostile fork of GIMP, which is now abandoned, and now unsupported by the GIMP development team. You should use plain GIMP - possibly 2.7.x which is better supported. This is the first time I've heard of Cenon. > > IDE tools: Eclipse > > Vim and emacs? :D (Okay, okay...) > > > Learning Management System (LMS): > > Moodle is the most popular one, but this mostly makes sense for a server > image, not a personal use laptop. > > > Productivity package: Openoffice, > > I'd swap Libreoffice for Openoffice; if you want another lightweight > word processor check out Abiword (or teach your students how much you > can do with plaintext editors -- gedit is nice if you're GNOME-based and > want a graphical thing, otherwise nano/vi(m)/emacs). > > IMO, the three most useful Libreoffice things are Writer, Calc, and > Impress, in that order (word processing, spreadsheets, and > presentations). There are other pieces of FOSS presentation software out > there but they tend to be a little bit more off the wall -- but if you > want to play with those, jessyink (sort of like prezi), Beamer (LaTeX), > and techtalk (built specifically for code-centric presentations). > There's also gnumeric, which is faster and more responsive than LibreOffice's Calc and is also nice. > > Project Management: ? > > Are you thinking about things like Trac or Redmine? Those are > server-side as well. > > I found http://www.ganttproject.biz/ to be fine for creating and > managing its namesake chart for a 9-month-long project, but this was > back in 2007 and I haven't tried it since. I've heard good things about > dotproject, phpcollab, and taskjuggler, but haven't used them myself; > there doesn't seem to be a category-killer here. Again, a lot of PM > tools for FOSS are web-based and more suitable to a server rather than a > desktop image. I'd love people to correct me here. :) > > > Security: Wireshark, Nmap Security Scanner, WinSCP, Snort > > Also check out the packages included on > http://spins.fedoraproject.org/security/ (click "List of all FSL > packages" on that page to get to > https://fedorahosted.org/security-spin/wiki/availableApps). > One should note that Nmap interprets the GPL licence in a strange and incredibly restrictive way, so it may be neither free software nor open-source: http://nmap.org/svn/COPYING > > Text Editor: vim, nano > > gedit. There's also gvim (vim running as a GNOME app). I'm sure others > here will clamor for emacs. Kate is also nice, at least when I need it to write mixed Hebrew/Latin documents (I'm usually using gvim for coding). > > > Video Editing: LiVES, > > kino, kdenlive -- see also http://opensource.com/tags/video-editing > There's also avidemux (which doesn't give you a lot, but works pretty well) and OpenShot (which I found confusing and/or buggy). Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Escape from GNU Autohell - http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/autohell/ Chuck Norris is his own boss. If you hire him, he’ll tell your boss what to do. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
