Re: Interesting Applications for Skolelinux

[Christian Selig <christian.selig@bnv-bamberg.de>]

Quoting rgx <rgx@gmx.de>:
> 1. Scribus (GPL) 
> "Scribus is a Layout program for GNU/Linux®, similar to Adobe® 
> PageMaker�, QuarkXPress� or Adobe® InDesign�, except that it is 
> published under the GNU GPL." [2]

That's a great piece of software.

> 3. R - "R is a language and environment for statistical computing and 
> graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and 
> environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, 
> now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be 
> considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important 
> differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R. " [4]

This one is used in some of our university courses.

Greets,
  Christian