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Tux Paint

Tux Paint

Go to the Tux Paint website  Tux Paint Website
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Download the Tux Paint installer Tux Paint Installer - For Windows XP, Vista or 2000

Download the Tux Paint installer Tux Paint Installer - For Windows 95/98/ME

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Download Tux Paint Stamps Tux Paint Stamps - Windows exe file - Any version of Windows

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Tux Typing 2

Tux Type

Go to the Tux Paint website  Tux Type Website
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Download the Tux Paint installer Tux Type Installer - For Windows

Download the Tux Paint installer Tux Type Installer - For Mac OS X

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Links

Open Office website

Go to the Open Office website Open Office


Open Source Clipart website

Go to the Open Source Clipart website Open Source Clipart


Schoolforge website

Go to the School Forge open source website School forge open source software


Go to the Open admin website

Go to the Open Admin for schools website Open Administration for Schools


Go to the Becta report on open source software

Go to Becta report on Open Source softwareBecta report on open source software


About Open Source

Open Source Software is software produced by people who want to showcase their programming skills and to offer their software to the world community at no cost to the user. Why do they do this? It is not easy to answer but it has possibly been born out of the desire to develop software without patents and to encourage others to contribute to the development of these projects. The "Open Source" bit means that the code produced to make the software is available to anyone with the skills to understand it so that they can add to the project and contribute to improving the software.

The software does have a licence in that anyone who works on the software must allow others to have access to their c ode also. This ensures that the software stays in the public domain and can benefit everyone. Perhaps the best example of Open Source Software is the operating system Linux, which has now had ten years of development. It is famous for being very stable and secure. It is used very widely as a backbone to the Internet and is often used as the software of choice for Internet servers.

What has this to do with SEN education? There are a number of Open Source projects which may benefit schools and anyone working with students with special educational needs. Software specifically aimed at SEN students is still rather limited but here are a few example that you may find useful. This software can be freely distributed to staff, students and parents without licence restrictions.


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