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Re: Interesting Applications for Skolelinux



[Ralf]
> 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]

Added to the wishlist (extra.txt)

> 2. Varkon - "a free CAD system and  high level development tool for 
> Engineering, Computer Aided Design and Product Modeling applications 
> originally developed by Microform AB in Sweden. 
> Now maintained and further developed by 
> the CAD group at the Department of 
> Technology at Örebro university in Sweden.  [3]

How is it compared with qcad, which is already in Debian and in
Skolelinux?

> 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]

I'll leave that for apt-get at the universities. :)



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