Victor E. Tiger
Fort Hays State University

Open Source Resources
  • Free Software Directory

    • Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. Free sfotware is a matter of the user's freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.

  • Free MacWare

    • The best in OS X freeware.

  • Download.com

    • Free software downloads and software reviews. Safe, trusted, and spyware-free.

Educational

  • Canorus

    • 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.

  • Celestia

    • The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

  • ChildsPlay

    • Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children, like gcompris. Childsplay uses a plugin system for the games, so you might want to check the Childsplay plugins page. There are two built-in games: memory and a typing game.

  • GCompris

    • 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.

  • Stellarium

    • Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

  • TuxMath

    • "Tux, of Math Command" ("TuxMath," for short) is an educational arcade game starring Tux, the Linux mascot!
    • 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.

  • TuxPaint

    • Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6 in the US, key stages 1 & 2 in the UK). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

  • TuxTyping

    • "Tux Typing" is an educational typing tutor for children. It features several different types of gameplay, at a variety of difficulty levels.

  • Crossword Builder. Multiplication Statio, Scabble, Wordsmith

    • Asymptopia Crossword Builder is a JavaScript education application that runs in any modern browser.

Internet

  • FireFox

    • The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.

  • Adium

    • Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, Google Talk and more.

  • Pigdin

    • Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. Pidgin can work with: AIM, Google Talk, MSN, MySpaceIM, Yahoo! and more.

Multimedia

  • ArtOfIllusion

    • Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java, and should be usable on any Java Virtual Machine which is compatible with J2SE 1.4 or later.

  • Blender

    • Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

  • Gimp

    • GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

  • Audacity

    • The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor--Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Learn more about Audacity... Also check our Wiki and Forum for more information.

  • Gungirl Sequencer

    • Gungirl Sequencer is an easy to use Audiosequencer. It includes a simple Filemanager and uses Drag & Drop to arrange Audiosamples.

  • Hydrogen-music

    • Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

  • Inkscape

    • An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

  • Jahshaka

    • Powering the new Hollywood. Jahshaka Project! The worlds first open source, hardware accelerate editing and effects system!

  • Miro

    • The only video player you need. Free and open-source, because open media matters.

  • VLC

    • VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server. VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Office Tools