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There are many F/LOSS educational software and applications that could be used for teaching purposes in home and education sector. These resources are available online and can be downloaded from certain website. openSUSE:Education-Li-f-e To use GNU/Linux for educational purpose, OpenSUSE development team had developed an iso image which can be used to burn DVD. The software and applications were chosen to target home and education environment. This collection in DVD is useful for educational purpose. The website even compasses of screen shots and videos to help users install it from the live-CD and DVD. Some of the applications available on the DVD are Chemtool; which is used to draw chemical structure, Euler; which is used for mathematical purposes, iTALC; which can be used by teachers to help in digital learning, KLogic; which is used to built and simulate digital circuits, QCAD which is a two dimensional Computer-Aided Design system etc. It also contains educati...

GNU/Linux Operating system opened a wider window of opportunity to the ICT and has came a long way from its origin.  GNU/Linux became popular and widely accepted in the past decade (Gillen et al., 2008; Gillen, 2009). This system came along with some of the preferred features than its competitors and gained most of the market. It came with variety of cost and support options giving the organisations more option to choose from. The GNU/Linux related software, hardware and support had more than 21 billion dollar revenue in 2007 and this figure is expected to be more than double by 2011 (Gillen et al., 2008). It has been a fastest growing operating system in almost every category of computing. It is growing fast in enterprise level too mostly because it is the way to control cost (Zemlin, n.d.). GNU/Linux is one of the most technically powerful operating system. It supports more than 20 different hardware architectures and has also been known for its high performance computing (...