[nflug] Edubuntu

[eric]

whoa! and thanks I'll check them out

Jesse Jarzynka wrote:

> eric wrote:
>
>> Just some FYI, as some of you may know or have figured out ;) I work at
>> school as a systems administrator and have been trying to integrate
>> linux into our classrooms because well ..to put it generically it's
>> simply feasible on many levels. For the past month I have been
>> listening to some talk about Ubuntu from
>> this list, so I decided to check it out and saw that Ubuntu also has a
>> distro called Edubuntu ...finally thrilled ...that a community did all
>> the work at putting together an Educational packaged GNU/Linux nice!
>> This Summer I am testing a dual boot with the default as Edubuntu in our
>> Library the other boot M$.
>> So far I have had to do simple things like installing flash and java to
>> the browser and create an easy to get to login for Samba shares on our
>> network ...how silly... Linux samba clients connecting to Linux Samba
>> servers using Openoffice to open and save everything as word, excel and
>> powerpoint ...it brings a tear to only one eye.
>> The distro comes with so much educational sofware that it might calm the
>> need for expensive software that may or may not work with wine.  I have
>> been encouraging our teachers to look for online educational software
>> that simply uses a browser, and have asked them to let me review the
>> site to make sure it's not using ASP and locked into IE.
>>
>> If I could only find K-12 biology software I think we'd be set.
>>
>> Thanks for the Ubuntu talk.
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>
> Did you try looking in the repos? Does any of this help?
>
> jesse at dapperdump:~$ sudo apt-cache search biology
> Password:
> avida-base - Auto-adaptive genetic system for Artificial Life research
> biomode - [Biology] An Emacs mode to edit genetic data
> bioperl - Perl tools for computational molecular biology
> boxshade - [Biology] Pretty-printing of multiple sequence alignments
> fastdnaml - [Biology] A tool for construction of phylogenetic trees of
> DNA sequences
> fastlink - [Biology] A faster version of pedigree programs of Linkage
> fastlink-doc - [Biology] Some papers about fastlink
> leksbot - An explanatory dictionary of botanic and biological terms
> libbio-ruby - bioruby tools for computational molecular biology
> libbio-ruby1.8 - bioruby tools for computational molecular biology
> libncbi6 - NCBI libraries for biology applications
> libncbi6-dbg - NCBI libraries for biology applications (debugging
> symbols)
> libncbi6-dev - NCBI libraries for biology applications (development
> files)
> libvibrant6 - NCBI libraries for graphic biology applications
> libvibrant6-dbg - NCBI libraries for graphic biology applications
> (unstripped)
> libvibrant6-dev - NCBI libraries for graphic biology applications
> (development files)
> loki - [Biology] MCMC linkage analysis on general pedigrees
> loki-doc - [Biology] Postscript manual for loki
> mcl - the Markov Cluster algorithm
> med-bio - Debian-Med micro-biology packages
> med-bio-dev - Debian-Med packages for development of micro-biology
> applications
> mipe - [Biology] Tools to store PCR-derived data
> muscle - [Biology] multiple alignment program of protein sequences
> muscle-doc - [Biology] documentation to sequence alignment program
> ncbi-epcr - [Biology] Tool to test a DNA sequence for the presence of
> sequence tagged sites
> ncbi-epcr-data - [Biology] NCBI public STS data
> ncbi-tools-bin - NCBI libraries for biology applications (text-based
> utilities)
> ncbi-tools-x11 - NCBI libraries for biology applications (X-based
> utilities)
> ncbi-tools6 - NCBI libraries for biology applications (transitional
> package)
> njplot - [Biology] A tree drawing program
> perlprimer - [Biology] graphical design of primers for PCR
> perlprimer-doc - [Biology] tutorial to perlprimer
> python-biopython - Python library for bioinformatics
> python2.4-biopython - Python library for bioinformatics
> readseq - [Biology] Conversion between sequence formats
> t-coffee - [Biology] Multiple Sequence Alignment
> textopo - [Biology] LaTeX presentation of topology of transmembrane
> proteins
> tigr-glimmer - [Biology] Gene detection in archea and bacteria
> tree-puzzle - [Biology] Reconstruction of phylogenetic trees by
> maximum likelihood
> vibrant6 - NCBI libraries for graphic biology apps (transitional package)
> clustalw - [Biology] Global multiple nucleotide or peptide sequence
> alignment
> clustalw-mpi - [Biology] MPI-distributed global sequence alignment
> with ClustalW
> clustalx - [Biology] GUI for clustalw
> molphy - [Biology] Program Package for MOLecular PHYlogenetics
> phylip - [Biology] A package of programs for inferring phylogenies
> phylip-doc - [Biology] A package of programs for inferring phylogenies
> seaview - [Biology] A multiple sequence alignment editor
>

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