Freeduc-science

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1 Purpose
2 Freeduc 1.7 beta 10 is out
- 2.1 Freeduc-CD release 1.7 Beta 10 is available for intensive testing
3 Links
4 Freeduc-Science factory HOWTO
5 Related Links

[edit] Purpose

Freeduc-Science aims to give each student interested in scientific fields the possibility to experiment by herself, using the best available free software tools in a usable environment.

As a side-effect, it should give useful guidelines to teachers willing to use free sotware tools to teach experimental sciences.

[edit] Freeduc 1.7 beta 10 is out

2006/02/20: Release beta1
2006/10/29: Release beta4
2006/10/31: Release beta5. Current status: the documentation is there, in French language. Know bugs: Wims does not work.
2006/11/02 : Release beta6. Wims does work.
2006/11/06 : Release beta7. Some bugs fixed, documentation improved
2006/11/13 : Release beta 8. Added qtiplot, kopenbabel, and the detection for a kwartz server.
2007/06/21 : Release beta 9. Much debloated the background programs, synchronised the applications with Etch/Lenny, replaced Gpdf by Evince, added the Liberlab driver and a directory with utilities, drivers, and documents for Phoenix-M. This release has been done for REV2007, so it should accept by default a Portuguese keyboard. However, few applications are localised, and the Freeduc-book is not localised. The comedi USBDUX interface is recognised at plug time automagically.
2007/06/30 : Release Beta 10. Made many improvements in the Freeduc Factory to manage language issues, fixed many bugs discovered in the workshops at REV2007, Added Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape, WxGlade, Kino, to meet requirements of attendees in REV2007. Now building a release for various languages should be quite straightforward. This release is made to boot directly into a Portuguese environment.

[edit] Freeduc-CD release 1.7 Beta 10 is available for intensive testing

Download it a sourceforge.net. there are two releases, one for Portuguese, another for French: click here

Check the ISO file: HowTo Verify a MD5 sum, burn it on a CDROM (HowTo burn an ISO), check the recently burnt CDROM against the same MD5 sum, then Boot Freeduc-CD

Check the Freeduc-Book made for this release. If you want to contribute, please join the project Freeduc-doc.

Visit the Progress page for Freeduc-CD 1.6, update it if you can contribute to the project!

[edit] Links

Communications, conferences
RMLL2005: a simple experiment.
Educ@tice 2005: une salle de mesure physique avec des outils libres (Français)
(soon coming) Educ@tice 2005: a laboratory for physical experiments with free tools (English).

Acquisition interfaces
USBDUX
Phoenix : schematics, user manual in English: postscript (.ps.gz, source (.lyx), French translation source (.lyx), PDF file.
Phoenix, pocket size : to be released soon. User manual in English: PDF file
Liberlab: visit the website which presents a very cheap interface with its driver software and satellite applications.

Drivers and frontents for acquisition interfaces
Comedi
Xoscope
Ktimetrace

Scientific educational software
Grace
LabPlot

[edit] Freeduc-Science factory HOWTO

Freeduc-Science is a bootable cdrom made in the same way than Freeduc-CD, which in turn is based on Knoppix.

To fiddle with the set of applications present in Freeduc-Science, please visit the Freeduc-CD factory HOWTO.
In order to be able to use acquisition interfaces and specific drivers, one must recompile some kernel modules, then install them in the cdrom.