http://blog.revolutionlinux.com/en/ en Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:26:17 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dotclear http://blog.revolutionlinux.com/en/post/2008/04/29/Top-10-Free-and-Open-Source-Software-in-education urn:md5:7ee148467c36e7b3b5d0e507ea684ef4 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:16:00 -0400 Benoit St-Andre DesktopEducationTop 10 <p>Open Source is gaining a much and much broader audience as time goes by. A lot of people admit that Open Source is ready for the server side.</p> <p>But when it comes to Desktop, people often don't know where to look. They know what they want to do (based on the software they're using now), but they don't know where to look for alternatives. We Open-Source-enthusiasts often send them to huge lists, with 3-pages-per-software description. I tried to look for simple one-pager descriptions, but didn't find any. Those small documents are often about one particular software, so it was not what I was looking for. I wanted something to hand out to people, so that they could say to themselves : "OK, there are some good Open Source software, I have their names, and I know what it does".</p> <p>So I just did a one-pager, with what is generally considered as "Top 10" Free and Open Source software for Education. I focused on the Desktop usage for now. I know there are much more educational software out there, but I think that will fit on another Top 10 document, focused on educational software.</p> <p>You can find <a href="http://www.revolutionlinux.com/Top-10-Free-and-Open-Source,217" hreflang="en">this document on our website</a>, in PDF format. I'm putting the direct link here, and a small thumbnail of what it looks like. If you click on the thumbnail, you will get the PDF printable file. Just click on the previous link to get the Web page with links to these software and to the orginial OpenOffice file.</p> <p>Feel free to comment here.</p> <p><a href="http://www.revolutionlinux.com/IMG/pdf/top-10-free-oss-education-desktop.pdf" hreflang="en"><img src="http://blog.revolutionlinux.com/public/Images/top10-preview.png" alt="Top 10 document preview" /></a></p> http://blog.revolutionlinux.com/en/post/2008/04/29/Top-10-Free-and-Open-Source-Software-in-education#comment-form http://blog.revolutionlinux.com/en/post/2008/04/29/Top-10-Free-and-Open-Source-Software-in-education#comment-form http://blog.revolutionlinux.com/en/feed/rss2/comments/110 http://blog.revolutionlinux.com/en/post/2008/04/29/Welcome-to-Revolution-Linuxs-blog urn:md5:c8bbbc33833bbb1bde918a0a10ca451a Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:44:00 -0400 Benoit St-Andre Revolution Linux <p>As you might know, a great part of the business we do at Revolution Linux takes part in French, since the main language spoken in Quebec at home, in businesses and in everyday life is French.</p> <p>Nevertheless, we are starting to have more and more clients that communicates with us in English, We are having some mandates in Ontario and in the United States, so having more and more English resources are becoming a necessity.</p> <p>This is why we are starting our brand new Revolution Linux's blog in English. You will find here different posts about free and Open Source Software, education, technology, and other topics. Sometimes, posts that we put here will also appear in French in our French blog (<a href="http://blog.revolutionlinux.com/" hreflang="fr">http://blog.revolutionlinux.com</a>), sometimes not. It's not because you don't understand French that you don't deserve original content ! :-)</p> <p>Welcome to our blog !</p> <p><a href="http://blog.revolutionlinux.com/en/" hreflang="en">http://blog.revolutionlinux.com/en/</a></p> http://blog.revolutionlinux.com/en/post/2008/04/29/Welcome-to-Revolution-Linuxs-blog#comment-form http://blog.revolutionlinux.com/en/post/2008/04/29/Welcome-to-Revolution-Linuxs-blog#comment-form http://blog.revolutionlinux.com/en/feed/rss2/comments/109