Open Source Linux Education Software

Browse free open source Education software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Education software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.

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    AcademiX

    AcademiX

    AcademiX GNU/Linux Education

    AcademiX GNU/Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution developed specifically for education. The distribution was built on the Debian Linux (Stretch / Buster) distribution and contains free software for education. The programs included in the distribution are for all levels of education – from primary to upper and / or university levels. The AcademiX Linux distribution includes an installation utility that can be used to install a variety of applications in mathematics, physics, chemistry, geography, biology, statistics, electronics, amateur radio, graphics, office, programming – which are accompanied by virtual interactive labs, and a virtual microscope developed in collaboration with NASA. Robotics Laboratories successfully complete the list of educational programs provided by the distribution. Vote: https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=academix
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    Downloads: 4,645 This Week
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    Xournal is a GTK+/Gnome application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus on Tablet PCs and other platforms. It aims to provide superior graphical quality (subpixel resolution) and overall functionality.
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    Downloads: 192 This Week
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    GCompris : I got IT

    GCompris : I got IT

    Educational Software for children aged 2 to 10.

    GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game oriented, but nonetheless still educational.
    Downloads: 53 This Week
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    Freeloader Linux

    Freeloader Linux

    Freeloader Linux is a live bootable distro

    Freeloader is a live Linux distribution to reclaim your PC and privacy. No hard disk required (boot from DVD/USB)
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    Downloads: 86 This Week
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    kickstart.nvim

    kickstart.nvim

    A launch point for your personal nvim configuration

    kickstart.nvim is a lightweight, open source starter configuration for Neovim that provides a minimal yet fully documented setup. Unlike large distributions, it focuses on being a single-file configuration that users can easily fork and customize. It supports modern Neovim features, plugin management, and language server protocol (LSP) integration, making it a practical launch point for building personalized environments. The repository includes setup instructions for Linux, macOS, and Windows, ensuring cross-platform compatibility. With external dependencies like ripgrep, fd-find, and Nerd Fonts for enhanced visuals, it balances simplicity with extensibility. Its goal is to help users quickly get started with Neovim while maintaining flexibility for future customization.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Time_limit

    Time_limit

    A windowed/full-screen countdown timer.

    A windowed / full-screen countdown timer. Colour and font size changes are used as warnings. Progress-bar gives a glance at the time stream. Three different modes are available: - time left; - time passed; - ordinary clock. When the time is over several possibilities are available: - to show the defined message; - to continue count the time; - to launch another application; - to close the count-down timer. Useful for speech, lecture or presentation timing. Colour / font / time limits can be changed using settings window and hot-keys. To change current time use the mouse wheel. By clicking on progress-bar, the timer mode is toggled.
    Downloads: 24 This Week
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    Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching. Our goal is to develop free software for education with knowledge sharing as our main concern. We already have developed software as DrGeo, GCompris, DrGenius and the live CD freeduc.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Xiphos (see github)
    A cross-platform Bible application for the Linux & Windows communities. Xiphos is no longer developed at SF; the SVN tree has been locked, the mailing lists are disabled, and we have moved to GitHub. Please see https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos. Releases up to 4.0.4 are present here. From 4.0.5 onward, see GitHub.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    Is an easy software writen in java for paint on Desktop. The finaly is to use in a learning enviroment with a digital whiteboard. You can also use it to paint your screencast and screenshots.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    JaLingo is a free cross-platform dictionary application. Features: list of words, while-typing search (like ABBYY Lingvo), spelling suggestion, history, HTML export. Supports 4 formats: DSL, Mova, Sdictionary and phpMyLingvo/PtkDict MySQL dumps
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    displays the current phase of the Moon as an applet for the gnome panel. Clicking on the applet displays sundry data pertaining to the moon including various clock functions. The user can select between a real image as well as a cartoon image of the
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Greenie

    Greenie

    Linux distribution for slovak/czech and e-book readers and authors

    Greenie is one of the Linux distributions. Unlike any other, it is originally from Slovakia and prepared for users in Slovakia and Czech Republic. All advantages from Ubuntu, OUT-OF-THE-BOX codecs and translations and great balance of software. New versions are also prepared for book readers, writers and everyone who need or wish to work with e-books.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    PyGlossary

    PyGlossary

    A tool for converting dictionary data files aka glossaries

    The SourceForge page is not updated anymore Please use: https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Aurora Conky Theme

    Aurora Conky Theme

    Aurora is a conky theme full of scripts

    NOT MAINTAINTED. AUREOLA CONKY IS SUCCESSOR https://github.com/erikdubois/Aureola Do not forget to rename the map from Aurora_vx.x to Aurora An conky theme to explore many possible parameters of your system. Ment to be viewed on dual screen. Educational insights. Extra information and youtube explanation can be seen on youtube via these pages. http://erikdubois.be/linux/conky http://erikdubois.be/linux/install-conky-theme-aurora What can it do more than Conky normally can? - scripts for temperature, fans, names of hardware - hours of lifetime harddisks - spotify information and covers - gmail information - number of updates - rss via scripting - weather forecast - many different lua to make rings and such - netstat script - nvidia information - satelite image of world and europe - sensors script - sign and stars of today - transmission information
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Gromit-MPX
    Gromit-MPX is a multi-pointer GTK3 port of the original Gromit desktop annotation tool. It enables graphical annotations with several pointers at once and is A LOT faster than its predecessor since it uses the XCOMPOSITE extension where available.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Step is an interactive physical simulation program for education. StepCore is a physical simulation library on which Step is based. Please refer to http://edu.kde.org/step for more details.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    edulibreos

    edulibreos

    EdulibreOS is an operating system based on Ubuntu GNU/Linux

    EdulibreOS is an operating system created in Guatemala, designed and built for schools, student and users various, not only to introduce children to the world of computing and technology, but also provides a large number of tools that Will support the development of the intellectual and creative skills of users. EdulibreOS is a lightweight, fast and attractive distribution based on Ubuntu. It has developed its own graphical interface called Innova Desktop (Developed in Gambas3) to have everything in a more easy, functional and fast way with a nice interface, flexible and fresh. Language: English French Español Other news and software selection: Armagetron Artikulate Bibletime Bovo Childsplay Etoys Firefox Gambas3 3.12 Gbedit Gcompris Innova Desktop Kapman Katomic KDE-Edu Klotski Ktuberling Kturtle Laby Omnitux PintaScreen PySioGame Raincat Scratch2 TuxGuitar TuxMath TuxPaint TuxType VisorRV1960 WPS-Office
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    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    DaZero
    DaZero ospita LinuxDaZero e WindowsDaZero, due progetti il cui obiettivo è quello di scrivere un libro che permetta a chi è veramente 'a zero' di computer di utilizzarlo con un sistema operativo libero e (spesso) gratuito.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    This project is now upgraded as educational resource planning tool including LMS (learning management system). Now DEI, AVV K, IITR, NITH, AMU, JMI, IGNOU, SMVDU are partnering in this. Overall coordination is done by IIT Kanpur.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Easy Monitor

    Easy Monitor

    Easy Monitor is set of SuperKaramba themes and bash scripts

    Easy Monitor is set of SuperKaramba themes and simple bash scripts. Can display infos about your: distro, procesor, memory, disk usage, clock, network speed,.. and even do many: administrative, configuration, installation and backup tasks.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    The Kid-Safe system is designed to be installed on PCLinuxOS. The project's primary goal is the Kid-Safe LiveCD, which is built using this package. The system includes KDE Kiosk Restrictions, Internet Filtering, Games and More. Designed for all ages.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Java-Calculator

    Java-Calculator

    I believe it is the best tool for everone get it it's free.

    Scientific Calculator includes the following features: * Traditional algebraic or RPN operation * Result history * Math Functions * Percentages * Binary, octal, and hexadecimal conversion * Large input/output display I believe it is the best tool for everone get it it's free.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Maktabah Al-Miftah

    Maktabah Al-Miftah

    Integrated Islamic Library

    Maktabah Al-Miftah is a Linux digital book reader for Shamela eBook (.bok), Thwab eBook (.th) and its own eBook (.mfth). Version 3.3 is not compatible with Ubuntu 15.10 and up. Version 3.4 runs on Lubuntu 17.04. Now, Version 3.5 runs on Lubuntu 24.04. Its installation is on the Maktabah Al-Miftah Web Site. Maktabah Al-Miftah adalah pembaca kitab digital Linux untuk eBook Syamilah (.bok), eBook Thwab (.th), dan eBooknya sendiri (.mfth). Versi 3.3 tidak kompatibel dengan Ubuntu 15.10 ke atas. Versi 3.4 dapat berjalan di Lubuntu 17.04. Sekarang, Versi 3.5 dapat berjalan di Lubuntu 24.04. Cara pemasangannya ada di Situs Web Maktabah Al-Miftah.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    dwos

    dwos

    dwos is a distribute WEB-desktop OS and scientific computing platform

    dwos is a distribute WEB-desktop OS. It mainly contains a WEB desktop environment, a chat-online system, a network disk system, a Scientific Computing platform(developing) and so on. It is developed by JAVA language using the JSH(JSF+Spring+Hibernate) framework. After about half year testing, now it's open source, you can download it and run on your computer, Tomcat and jetty server container are tested ok. It's developed by myself, more about me, see here: http://home.ustc.edu.cn/~chh1990/chero/chero.html
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    gwavmerger is an interactive memory training tool designed to facilitate the learning of foreign languages. It helps you memorize long passages of text by heart.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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