Youth Education Desktop Software Youth Education Desktop Software Software for youths (11-14 years) which can be used in educational enviroments on client site. Education Applications for education users This Project contains several packages which might be interesting for educational use. Have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Applications for details. http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/openSUSE_11.2/ openSUSE:11.2:Update Official released updates for openSUSE 11.2 Official released updates for openSUSE 11.2. rpm downloads are disabled by intention, please use our official update repositories from the download mirrors. http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/ devel:languages:misc Various programming languages Various programming languages http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/misc/openSUSE_11.2/ openSUSE:11.2:Contrib Contrib: The Universal openSUSE Repository for Third-party Packages http://en.opensuse.org/Contrib http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/11.2:/Contrib/standard/ devel:languages:perl perl modules various perl modules and tools http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/perl/openSUSE_11.2/ openSUSE:11.2:NonFree Non Free parts of openSUSE 11.2 distribution. Non free or non open source parts of openSUSE 11.2. http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss/ openSUSE:11.2 The openSUSE 11.2 distribution The openSUSE 11.2 distribution. rpm and iso file downloads are disabled by intention, please use our official released RCs from the download mirrors. http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/ pattern:Education The pattern:Education package The pattern:Education package. pattern:x11 The pattern:x11 package The pattern:x11 package. LabPlot Function and Data Plotter LabPlot is a scientific 2D and 3D data and function plotting program. The various display and analysis functions are explained in the handbook (KDE help center). LabPlot also provides a component for easily viewing the project files in Konqueror. Authors: -------- Stefan Gerlach <gerlach@mbi-berlin.de> TuxMathScrabble Add, subtract and multiply TuxMathScrabble is a math version of the classic word game "Scrabble" (Trademark of Hasbro,Inc) which challenges kids to construct compound equations and to consider multiple abstract possibilities. There are four skill levels for practice, from basic addition with small numbers, through multiplication and division with larger numbers. The game can be played by 0, 1 or 2 human players. Player submissions are made by dragging tiles to the gameboard and pressing the "okay" button when ready to be validated. Invalid submissions are thrown-back to the user's tray. Several new features have recently been added, such as the ability to shuffle player tiles in-place, the programatic creation of tiles on-the-fly (as opposed to using images), configurable tile transparency, the ability to use a background image, and the option of configuring the "None" character for either/both players. Author: ------- Charles B. Cosse TuxWordSmith Scrabble like game for young children TuxWordSmith is similar to the classic word game "Scrabble", but with unicode support for multiple languages and character sets. The game is currently distributed with forty-two (42) dictionary resources for playing Language[i]-Language[j] "Scrabble". For example, if configured to use the French-German dictionary, then the distribution of available tiles will be computed based on frequency of occurance of each character of Language[i] (French), and for each submission the corresponding definition will be given in Language[j] (German). The latest release includes support for the Greek and Cyrillic (Russian, Ukranian) character sets, thus making it possible to play Scrabble in Greek, Russian and Ukranian, as well as a host of other languages which use latin characters. Author: ------- Charles B. Cosse VirtualLab The Virtual Microscope interface The Virtual Microscope interface supports the browsing of high-resolution, multi-dimensional image datasets from our Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and our Light Microscope (LM). Authors: -------- Imaging Technology Group, NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Learning Technologies. XaraLX The XaraLX package The XaraLX package. atomix Little mind game where you have to build molecules out of atoms lying around Atomix is yet another little mind game. You have to build molecules out of single atoms laying around. Of course there is a time limit and the handling is not as easy as you might expect ;-). This game is inspired by the original Amiga game Atomix and uses the GNOME libraries. audacity The audacity package The audacity package. avogadro Avogadro is a Molecular design tool Avogadro is an advanced molecular editor designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It offers flexible rendering and a powerful plugin architecture. Authors: -------- See AUTHORS file batik The batik package The batik package. blender The blender package The blender package. blender-doc The blender-doc package The blender-doc package. bluefish A feature-Rich HTML Editor Bluefish is a HTML editor designed for the experienced Web designer (supports HTML, PHP, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, C, Pascal and more). It is based on Gtk+. Authors: -------- Info <bluefish@bluefish.linuxbox.com> bluefish-doc Bluefish: The Definitive Guide User's, Developer's, and Documentarian's Guide for Bluefish version 1.0.6. You can find the tutorial under /usr/share/doc/bluefish-doc/. Authors: -------- Daniel Blair Michèle Garoche Anita Lewis Alastair Porter Denny Reeh Olivier Sessink Scott White Logo art: Dave Lyon bluej An integrated Java environment specifically designed for introductory teaching The BlueJ environment was developed as part of a university research project about teaching object-orientation to beginners. The aim of BlueJ is to provide an easy-to-use teaching environment for the Java language that facilitates the teaching of Java to first year students. Special emphasis has been placed on visualisation and interaction techniques to create a highly interactive environment that encourages experimentation and exploration. BlueJ is based on the Blue system. Blue is an integrated teaching environment and language, developed at the University of Sydney and Monash University, Australia. BlueJ provides a Blue-like environment for the Java language. Authors: ------- M. Kölling and J. Rosenberg canorus Free cross-platform music score editor Canorus is a free music score editor. It supports note writing, scripting support, import/export of various file formats, MIDI input and output and more! Note that Canorus is still in early stage of development and not nearly all the features are implemented yet! Authors: -------- Matevž Jekovec <matevz.jekovec@gmail.com> Reinhard Katzmann <suamor@web.de> Itay Perl <itay.perl@gmail.com> celestia OpenGL Space Simulator Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia does not confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system to any of over 100,000 stars or even beyond the galaxy. All travel in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit. Authors: -------- Chris Laurel <claurel@www.shatters.net> Clint Weisbrod <cweisbrod@adelphia.net> Fridger Schrempp <t00fri@mail.desy.de> Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com> Christophe Teyssier <chris@teyssier.org> chemtool Program for Drawing 2D Organic Molecules Chemtool is a program for drawing organic molecules easily and storing them as an X bitmap, Xfig, or EPS file. It runs under the X Window System using the GTK widget set. Authors: -------- Thomas Volk Dr. Martin Kroeker clisp The clisp package The clisp package. dia The dia package The dia package. ding The ding package The ding package. dosbox The dosbox package The dosbox package. dosutils The dosutils package The dosutils package. drgeo Interactive Geometry Program An interactive geometry program that allows the construction of interactive geometric figures. It is oriented towards education. Authors: -------- Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire@seul.org> Arturo Espinosa <arturo@nuclecu.unam.mx> exelearning eXe eLearning XHTML editor eXe, the eLearning XHTML editor, is an authoring environment which enables teachers to publish web content in standard package formats (like IMS Content Packages and SCORM) without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. Content generated using eXe can be used by any Learning Management System. Author(s): ---------- eXe Project <exe@exelearning.org> fbreader FBReader: cross-platform e-book reader FBReader is an e-book reader for various platforms. Main features: * Supported formats are o fb2 e-book format (style attributes are not supported yet). o HTML format (tables are not supported). o CHM format (tables are not supported). o plucker format (tables are not supported). o Palmdoc (aportis doc). o zTxt (Weasel format). o TCR (psion text) format. o RTF format (stylesheets and tables are not supported). o OEB format (css and tables are not supported). o OpenReader format (css and tables are not supported). o Non-DRM'ed mobipocket format (tables are not supported). o Plain text format. * Direct reading from tar, zip, gzip and bzip2 archives. (Multiple books in one archive are supported.) * Automatic library building. * Automatic encoding detection is supported. * Automatically generated contents table. * Embedded images support. * Footnotes/hyperlinks support. * Position indicator. * Keeps the last open book and the last read positions for all opened books between runs. * List of last opened books. * Automatic hyphenations. Liang's algorithm is used. The same algorithm is used in TeX, and TeX hyphenation patterns are used in FBReader. Patterns for Czech, English, Esperanto, French, German and Russian are included in the current version. * Text search. * Full-screen mode. * Screen rotation by 90, 180 and 270 degrees. freqtweak Real-Time Audio Spectral Visualization FreqTweak is a tool for real-time audio spectral manipulation and display. It provides several algorithms for processing audio data in the frequency domain and a highly interactive GUI to manipulate the associated filters for each algorithm. It also provides high-resolution spectral displays in the form of scrolling-raster spectrograms and energy versus frequency plots displaying both preprocessed and post-processed spectra. Authors: -------- Jesse Chappell <jesse@essej.net> gbrainy A brain teaser game and trainer gbrainy is a brain teaser game and trainer to have fun and to keep your brain trained. It provides the following types of games: * Logic puzzles. Games designed to challenge your reasoning and thinking skills. * Mental calculation. Games based on arithmetical operations designed to prove your mental calculation skills. * Memory trainers. Games designed to challenge your short term memory. * Verbal analogies. Games that challenge your verbal aptitude. gcompris GCompris / I Have Understood GCompris is an educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational. Below you can find a list of categories with some of the activities available in that category. - computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture, ... - algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image, ... - science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, electric simulation ... - geography: place the country on the map - games: chess, memory, connect 4, oware, sudoku ... - reading: reading practice - other: learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing, ... Currently GCompris offers in excess of 80 activities and more are being developed. GCompris is free software, that means that you can adapt it to your own needs, improve it and, most importantly, share it with children everywhere. Authors: ------- - Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin@free.fr> - Yves Combe - Yann Dirson (clock board needle angle calculation) - Pascal Georges - Jose JORGE - Olivier Samyn (Python plugin) - Laurent Lacheny (Connect 4) - Joe Neeman (Gnumch) geogebra Dynamic mathematics software GeoGebra is a dynamic mathematics software for education in secondary schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. Authors: -------- Markus Hohenwarter Yves Kreis Loïc Le Coq Joan Carles Naranjo Victor Franco Eloi Puertas Philipp Weissenbacher geonext A tool for creating geometric constructions Geonext acts as a tool for creating geometric constructions with a various number of construction tools. Compared to paper based constructions constructions can be changed and varied dynamically afterwards. gimp The gimp package The gimp package. gimp-help The gimp-help package The gimp-help package. gnuchess The gnuchess package The gnuchess package. gramofile Digitize Audio Records Gramofile is a program to digitize audio records. Through the application of several filters, it is possible to accomplish a significant reduction of disturbances like ticks and scratches. Data is saved in WAV format, making it easy to record on CD with programs like cdrecord or xcdroast. Authors: -------- J.A. Bezemer <J.A.Bezemer@ITS.TUDelft.NL> grass The grass package The grass package. hydrogen A Real-Time Drum Machine and Sequencer Hydrogen is a simple real-time Drum machine and sequencer for computer aided composition (CAC). It supports OSS and JACK outputs and ALSA sequencer MIDI input. Authors: -------- Alessandro Cominu <comix@users.sourceforge.net> inkscape The inkscape package The inkscape package. lincity-ng The lincity-ng package The lincity-ng package. littlewizard Development Environment for Children Little Wizard is created especially for primary school children. It allows to learn using main elements of present computer languages, including: variables, expressions, loops, conditions, logical blocks. Every element of language is represented by an intuitive icon. It allows program Little Wizard without using keyboard, only mouse. Author(s): ------------- Kwadrans Marcin <quarter@users.sourceforge.net> maxima Symbolic Computation Program/Computer Algebra System Maxima is a full symbolic computation program. It is full featured doing symbolic manipulation of polynomials, matrices, rational functions, integration, Todd-coxeter, graphing, bigfloats. It has a symbolic debugger source level debugger for maxima code. Maxima is based on the original Macsyma developed at MIT in the 1970's. It is quite reliable, and has good garbage collection, and no memory leaks. It comes with hundreds of self tests. muse The muse package The muse package. noteedit Score Editor with Extensive MIDI and MusiXTeX Functionality NoteEdit is a score editor based on the MIDI library TSE3. It can read and write MIDI files and process events sent from an external MIDI keyboard. The configured MIDI devices can be used to play the score. The score can be saved as a MusiXTeX file for printout. Authors: -------- Jörg Anders <ja@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> nvu The nvu package The nvu package. octave The octave package The octave package. pauker Pauker is a generic flashcard program for learning vocabularies Pauker is a * completely free (OpenSource, GPL) * flash card based, * learning application * written in Java * using the leitner cardfile system * available in Dutch, English, Esperanto, German, French and Polish * works offline without the need of an internet connection * and is compatible with MiniPauker, a Pauker version for PDA's and mobile phones. Authors: ------- Ronny Standtke Axel Kittenberger - Website and more Markus Brosch - Searching for similar cards, MiniPauker Kay Patzwald - RPM package pauker-lessons Prepared lessons for Pauker Here you will find prepared Pauker lessons. Please have a look in /usr/share/pauker planets A simple and fun planetary simulator Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems. The user interface is aimed at being simple enough that a fairly young kid can get some joy out of it. But it's probably as much if not more fun for adults. Author(s): ------- Yaron Minsky Sandor Lehoczky Gunner Poulsen Daniel Andor Martin Pitt pythoncad PythonCAD--CAD in Python PythonCAD is a CAD package written in Python. The PythonCAD project aims to produce a scriptable, open source, and easy to use CAD package. Start it with gtkpycad.py from the command line. Authors: -------- Art Haas <ahaas@airmail.net> qcad Free Open-source 2D CAD System QCad (community edition) is a free, open-source 2D CAD system for Linux, various Unices, and Windows. The developers main goals are to build a stable, fast, and easy to use CAD for everyone. You do not need any knowledge of CAD programs to start working with QCad. Authors: -------- Andrew Mustun <andrew@qcad.org> rasmol Molecular Graphics Visualization Tool RasMol is an X Window System tool intended for the visualization of proteins and nucleic acids. It reads Brookhaven Protein Database (PDB) files and interactively renders them in a variety of formats on either an 8-bit or 24/32-bit color display. Examples are in /usr/lib/rasmol. Authors: -------- Herbert J. Bernstein <yaya@bernstein-plus-sons.com> rekall The rekall package The rekall package. rekall-mysql The rekall-mysql package The rekall-mysql package. rekall-sqlite The rekall-sqlite package The rekall-sqlite package. rekall-unisql The rekall-unisql package The rekall-unisql package. rosegarden4 Midi, audio and notation editor Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments. This is a complete rewrite of the old 1.7.x series of rosegarden and has many new features and enhancements. See the changelog for details. Authors: -------- Chris Cannam <cannam@all-day-breakfast.com> Richard Bown <bownie@bownie.com> Guillaume Laurent <glaurent@telegraph-road.org> scilab High Level Programming Language/Numerical Analysis Software A large mathematical package for numerical computations containing a lot of demos. This program may not look very appealing, but it is as powerful as some commercial products. Scilab even includes a converter for Maple files. Authors: -------- Scilab Consortium / Digiteo score-reading-trainer Improve your musical score reading skills Score Reading Trainer helps you improve your (musical) score reading skills by practicing with random scores. It works in a very simple way, you choose the clef, the key and the accidentals you want to practice as well as thee range of notes and then, the program generates a on-screen score with that parameters but randomizing the notes and the accidentals (and everything else that is randomizable). The keys of the keyboard are mapped to the notes like in a piano (it would be nice to support midi in the future) and all you have to do, is press the right key for the first note you see in the score on the screen. If you pressed the right key, the note will disapear and replaced by the second one, a diferent note, and you have to repeat the process. As the notes are generated randomly, there's no way one can predict the following note and since several notes (as much as the screen allows) are on the screen, one can also train pre-reading (reading ahead of the current one) of the notes. Author: ------- José Pablo Ezequiel "Pupeno" Fernández scratch A new programming language Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design. screem The screem package The screem package. scribus Open Source Page Layout and Desktop Publishing (DTP) Scribus is a desktop open source page layout program with the aim of producing commercial grade output in PDF and Postscript. It is primarily, though not exclusively,designed for Linux. While the goals of the program are ease of use and user-friendly tools, Scribus offers support for the following professional publishing features: * CMYK colors * Easy PDF creation * Encapsulated Postscript import and export * Creation of color separations. Authors: -------- Franz Schmid <Franz.Schmid@altmuehlnet.de> Paul F. Johnson <paul@all-the-johnsons.co.uk> Craig Bradney <cbradney@zip.com.au> Peter Linnell <mrdocs@scribus.info> Petr Van&#283;k <petr@yarpen.cz> Riku Leino <tsoots@welho.com> Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au> Alessandro Rimoldi http://ideale.ch/contact Jean-Jacques Sarton <jj.sarton@t-online.de> Christian T�pp <mr-ct@gmx.de> Alastair Robinson <blackfive@fakenhamweb.co.uk> Thomas Zastrow <webmaster@thomas-zastrow.de> Steve Callcott skencil The skencil package The skencil package. solfege Eartraining program Solfege is an eartraining program for X written in python, using the GTK+ and GNOME libraries. Authors: -------- Tom Cato Amundsen <tca@gnu.org> stardict The stardict package The stardict package. stellarium Astronomical Sky Simulator Stellarium is a free software available for Windows, Linux/Unix and MacOSX. It renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time.. With stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope. Authors: -------- Project Leader : Fabien Chereau - fab.chereau (at) free.fr Developer : Rob Spearman - rob (at) digitaliseducation.com Developer : Tony Furr - email (at) furrconsulting.com.au Developer : Johannes Gajdosik - gajdosik (at) users.sourceforge.net Graphist : Johan Meuris - johanmeuris (at) antwerpen.be Doc writer : Matthew Gates - matthew (at) porpoisehead.net taskjuggler The taskjuggler package The taskjuggler package. timidity Software Synthesizer and MIDI Player TiMidity plays MIDI files without external MIDI instruments and converts MIDI files to WAV using GUS/patch and SoundFont for voice data. Authors: -------- Masanao Izumo <mo@goice.co.jp> tipp10 Educational typing tutor TIPP10 is an educational typing tutor which automatically adapts the lesson to the typing failures of of the student. Authors: -------- Tom Thielicke IT Solutions tkgate Event driven digital circuit simulator with a tcl/tk interface TkGate is a event driven digital circuit simulator with a tcl/tk-based graphical editor. TkGate supports a wide range of primitive circuit elements as well as user-defined modules for hierarchical design. The distribution comes with a number of tutorial and example circuits which can be loaded through the "Help" menu. The example circuits include a simple CPU, programmed to run the Animals game. TkGate Features: - Easy to use point-and-click user interface. - Customizable color configuration. - Intelligent placement and movement of wires. - Multi-bit buses. - Hierarchical design through user defined modules. - Six valued logic including 0, 1, floating, unknown, "low" and "high". - Wide range of circuit elements including: - Basic gates (AND, OR, etc.) - Switch-level NMOS and PMOS transistors - Tristate buffers - Alu components (Adders, shifters, multipliers) - Memory elements (Registers, RAMs, ROMs) - A "tty" element which allows the creation of interactive circuits. - Graphical display of simulation results. - Breakpoints, single-step and clock-step simulator control. - Includes a generic microcode/macrocode compiler for creating memory initialization files. - Simulations can be controlled through the GUI or through script files. - Verilog-like save file format. - Hyperlinks to move about in circuit or load other files. - Can be configured to use Japanese interface (see README file). - Supports static critical path analysis. tuxmath Tux Math - educational math game An educational math tutorial game starring Tux, the Linux Penguin. Based on the classic arcade game "Missile Command," Tux must defend his cities. In this case, though, he must do it by solving math problems. Authors: ======== Bill Kendrick David Bruce Tim Holy Brendan Luchen Jesus Mager Sam 'Criswell' Hart Larry Ewing tuxpaint Drawing Program for Young Children Tux Paint" is a drawing program for young children. It has a simple interface and fixed canvas size, and provides access to previous images using a thumbnail browser (it provides no access to the underlying filesystem). Unlike popular drawing programs such as "The GIMP," it has a very limited toolset. However, it provides a much simpler interface, and has entertaining, child-oriented additions such as sound effects. Authors: -------- Bill Kendrick <bill@newbreedsoftware.com> tuxpaint-config Configuration tool for Tux Paint Tux Paint has a rich set of configuration options, controllable via command-line options or configuration files. This configuration tool provides a point-and-click interface for administrators to tailor Tux Paint to suit the needs of their users. tuxtype Typing tutor for children Tux Typing is an educational typing tutor game starring Tux, the Linux penguin. It is designed to be entertaining for children, but can be used by all ages to improve typing skills. Tux Typing includes two video game-style activities that give practice typing individual characters and words. There is also a phrase typing activity that provides practice with phrases and sentences, with on-screen display of accuracy and typing speed. Tux Typing supports all commonly used desktop platforms, and is packaged with translation files and word lists for many (human) languages. The program is capable of displaying essentially the entire Unicode character set. Authors: -------- Current maintainer and programming lead: David Bruce <davidstuartbruce@gmail.com> Jesse Andrews <jdandr2@uky.edu> Calvin Arndt <calarndt@tux4kids.org> Sam Hart <hart@geekcomix.com> --- Sam started it all with TuxType 1!!! Jacob Greig <bombastic@firstlinux.net> Sreyas Kurumanghat <k.sreyas@gmail.com> Sreerenj Balachandran <bsreerenj@gmail.com> Vimal Ravi <vimal_ravi@rediff.com> Prince K. Antony <prince.kantony@gmail.com> Mobin Mohan <mobinmohan@gmail.com> vym VYM (View Your Mind) generate and manipulate maps which show your thoughts VYM (View Your Mind) is a tool to generate and manipulate maps which show your thoughts. Such maps can help you to improve your creativity and effectivity. You can use them for time management, to organize tasks, to get an overview over complex contexts, to sort your ideas etc. Some people even think it is fun to work with such maps... Authors: -------- Uwe Drechsel <vym@insilmaril.de> wine An MS Windows emulator An MS Windows emulator, consisting of both runtime and also source compatibility functions. You can run your MS executables with it, and you can write your Windows programs under Linux and link against the WINE libraries. It is not necessary to have a Windows installation to run WINE. Please have a look at /usr/share/doc/packages/wine/README.SuSE. There is more documentation available in that directory. Read 'man wine' for further information. You can invoke wine by entering: 'wine program.exe' wine can be configured by running 'winecfg'. wine-doors An application designed to make installing windows software Wine-doors is an application designed to make installing windows software on Linux, Solaris or other Unix systems easier. Wine-doors is essentially a package management tool for windows software on Linux systems. Most Linux desktop users are familiar with package management style application delivery, so it made sense to apply this model to windows software. Wine-doors works by leveraging the exquisite software, libraries and tools created over at WineHQ, there are also plans to support Cedega, cvscedega and Crossover Office. winetools The winetools package The winetools package. wxMaxima Graphical User Interface for the maxima Computer Algebra System wxMaxima is a cross platform GUI for the computer algebra system maxima based on wxWidgets. wxMaxima features include: * 2D formatted math display: wxMaxima implements its own math display engine to nicely display maxima output. * Menu system: most maxima commands are available through menus. Most used functions are also available through a button panel at below the input line. * Dialogs: commands which require more that one argument can be entered through dialogs so that there is no need to remember the exact syntax. * Command line history: the input line has command history and command completion based on previous input. * Create documents: text can be mixed with math calculations to create documents. See the howto for tips on how to use these features. Documents can be saved and edited again later. Author: ------- Andrej Vodopivec <andrejv@users.sourceforge.net> xaos Powerful fractal generator XaoS is a fast portable real-time interactive fractal zoomer. It displays the Mandelbrot set (among other escape time fractals) and allows you to zoom smoothly into the fractal. Various coloring modes are provided for both the points inside and outside the selected set. In addition, switching between Julia and Mandelbrot fractal types and displaying planes is provided. Authors: -------- Jan Hubicka <hubicka@paru.cas.cz> Thomas Marsh <tmarsh@austin.ibm.com> xdrawchem A 2D molecule drawing program XDrawChem is a two-dimensional molecule drawing program for Unix operating systems. It is similar in functionality to other molecule drawing programs such as ChemDraw (TM, CambridgeSoft). It can read and write MDL Molfiles and CML files to allow sharing between XDrawChem and other chemistry applications. Author: ------- Mostly written by Bryan Herger, bherger@users.sourceforge.net xfig Facility for Interactive Generation of Figures under the X Window System Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects interactively in an X Window System window. The resulting pictures can be saved, printed on PostScript printers, or converted to a variety of other formats (to allow inclusion in LaTeX documents, for example). Documentation: /usr/share/doc/packages/xfig & man xfig Examples: /usr/share/doc/packages/xfig/TheExamples Authors: -------- Anthony Dekker <dekker@ACM.org> Brian V. Smith <bvsmith@lbl.gov> Jim Daley <jdaley@cix.compulink.co.uk> Ross Martin <martin@trcsun3.eas.asu.edu> Uwe Bonnes <bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de> xlogo Logo interpreter, written in Java XLogo is a Logo interpreter, written in Java. Logo is a programming language developed in the 1970's by Seymour Papert. It is an excellent language to begin learning with, as it teaches the basics of things like loops, tests, procedures, etc. The user moves an object called a "turtle" around the screen using commands as simple as forward, back, right, and so on. As it moves, the turtle leaves a trail behind it, and so it is therefore possible to create drawings. Operations on lists and words are also possible. Authors: -------- Loïc Le Coq yacas YACAS is an easy to use, general purpose Computer Algebra System YACAS is an easy to use, general purpose Computer Algebra System, a program for symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions. It uses its own programming language designed for symbolic as well as arbitrary-precision numerical computations. The system has a library of scripts that implement many of the symbolic algebra operations; new algorithms can be easily added to the library. YACAS comes with extensive documentation (320+ pages) covering the scripting language, the functionality that is already implemented in the system, and the algorithms we used. Authors: -------- Initial Author: Ayal Pinkus Additional Authors: John Lapeyre, Juan Pablo, Igor Khavkine, James Gilbertson, Daniel Richard G., Ladislav Zejda, Fred Bacon, Serge Winitzki, Jay Belanger, John Fremlin, Christian Obrecht , Alberto Gonz�lez Palomo, Jonathan Leto, Daniel Rigby, Franz Hack, Sebastian Ferraro, Jim Apple GNS3 GNS3 is a graphical network simulator GNS3 is a excellent complementary tool to real labs for administrators of Cisco networks or people wanting to pass their CCNA, CCNP, CCIP or CCIE certifications. It can also be used to experiment features of Cisco IOS or to check configurations that need to be deployed later on real routers. Important notice: users must provide their own Cisco IOS to use GNS3. Author(s): ------------- Jeremy Grossmann David Ruiz Romain Lamaison Aurélien Levesque Xavier Alt R The R package The R package. Squeak The Squeak package The Squeak package. bc The bc package The bc package. brainworkshop A free version of the Dual N-Back mental exercise Brain Workshop is a free open-source Python version of the Dual N-Back mental exercise. A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that a particular memory task, called Dual N-Back, may actually improve short term memory and fluid intelligence (IQ), previously thought to be unchangeable. The game involves remembering a sequence of spoken letters and a sequence of positions of a square at the same time. Brain Workshop includes an optional Triple N-Back mode that introduces differently colored squares as a third stimulus. Authors: -------- plhosk@gmail.com bwbasic A Basic interpreter The Bywater BASIC Interpreter (bwBASIC) implements a large superset of the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978) and a significant subset of the ANSI Standard for Full BASIC (X3.113-1987) in C. It also offers shell programming facilities as an extension of BASIC. bwBASIC seeks to be as portable as possible. Authors: -------- Ted A. Campbell <tcamp@delphi.com> fet FET is open software for scheduling the timetable of a school FET is open source free software for automatically scheduling the timetable of a school, high-school or university. It uses a fast and efficient timetabling algorithm. It is licensed under GNU/GPL. fpc The fpc package The fpc package. fpc-units The fpc-units package The fpc-units package. gambas2-ide The Gambas Development Enviroment This package includes the complete Gambas Development Environment, with the database manager, and the help files. Authors: -------- Benoît Minisini <gambas@users.sourceforge.net> iTest The iTest package The iTest package. lazarus The lazarus package The lazarus package. netbeans A World-Class Development Environment Written in Java The NetBeans IDE is a world-class development environment written in Java. It can be used to develop code in Java, HTML, XML, JSP, C/C++, and other languages. The IDE is modular and there is a huge variety of commercial and free extensions for it that support various technologies. selfhtml HTML reference A very good documentation of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, XML/XSLT, CGI/Perl and more, with many additional tips for design, graphics, project management, etc. Up to now there is only a german version. Translations into english, french, spanish and japanese are in progress but not yet completed. Authors: -------- SELFHTML e.V. selflinux Linux tutorial Linux reference and tutorial. Unfortunately, this document is only available in German. You can find the tutorial under /usr/share/doc/selflinux/ - or use the SuSE helpcenter. Authors: -------- Teamleader: Florian Frank florian.frank@pingos.org Authors: Florian Frank florian.frank@pingos.org Frank Börner f.boerner@ngi.de Lothar Ketterer superapotheker@m-air.org Matthias Hagedorn matthias.hagedorn@selflinux.org Arnulf Pelzer arnulf@selflinux.org Robin Haunschild konqui@selflinux.org selfphp PHP reference and tutorial Every PHP instruction is explained with at least one example and its output in the web-browser. Useful for beginners and for anvanced PHP programmers. Available in german only. Authors: -------- Damir Enseleit <mail@selfphp3.de> swi-prolog SWI-Prolog distribution Edinburgh-style Prolog compiler including modules, autoload, libraries, Garbage collector, stack expandor, C interface, GNU readline and GNU Emacs interface, a very fast compiler,and an X11 interface using XPCE (see http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/xpce). Authors: -------- Jan Wielemaker <jan@swi.psy.uva.nl> xboard X Window System Interface for GNU Chess Xboard is a GUI interface for GNU Chess. Authors: -------- Wayne Christopher Chris Sears and Dan Sears Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org> John Chanak Evan Welsh <Evan.Welsh@msdw.com> Elmar Bartel <bartel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Jochen Wiedmann Frank McIngvale <frankm@hiwaay.net> Hugh Fisher <Hugh.Fisher@cs.anu.edu.au> Allessandro Scotti H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl> Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net> Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>