Top Linuxverse Apps and Education Systems for 2025
Since the middle of last year we have been offering you a Great and very useful series of publications related to the Educational Linuxverse. That is, with the set of suitable applications created within the scope of free and open source software, and available for both free and open operating systems (*Linux/*BSD) and for Windows and macOS, which have as their main objective to learn/teach or strengthen/facilitate some technological skill, mainly in Teachers and Students. And not only in the field of pure Computer Science, but in varied fields such as Administration and Accounting, and the generation/management of multimedia content (audio and sound, images and photos, videos and movies). Therefore, today in this first publication of the year of this series we will continue with a small «Top Linuxverse Educational Apps and Systems for 2025» which is definitely worth knowing.
So above all, whether you are a Teacher, Master and Professor or Student and Pupil, in any public or private institution in any country, we invite you to continue reading this publication so that you can learn about some Useful and modern tools of the educational Linuxverse. Which have very diverse objectives, which will allow you to impart or acquire more and better knowledge, inside and outside a study classroom.
Apps for uses in STEM Projects and Educational Distros: Part 01
But, before starting this present Top about some of the most interesting, modern, known and used «Educational Apps and Systems from the Linuxverse» which are certainly worth knowing, trying and using in the educational field, we recommend that you explore the previous publication related to this type of applications, after finishing reading this one:
Top 2025: Educational Apps and Systems of the Linuxverse
Top Apps and Educational Systems from the GNOME and KDE projects
Since, in any field or category of the Linuxverse, The free and open source software (applications and systems) available can be very broad, making a Top can leave many out. For this reason, and given that many tend to belong to the same developer or developer community, our first 2 mentions will be for the group of Educational applications from the large communities of the GNOME and KDE projects. Among which we will select some recommended ones from each project, and these are the following:
GNOME
- SimpleScan: It is an app that allows us to scan, crop and save documents and photos in PDF or various image formats with great ease.
- Evince: It is a document viewer for the GNOME desktop that allows us to view, search for, or make annotations on documents with various formats.
- citations: It is an app that allows us to manage our bibliographies using a BibTeX format.
- dialect: It is an app that allows us to translate content between different languages.
- Wike: A Wikipedia reader for GNOME. It provides access to the full content of this online encyclopedia, with a cleaner, distraction-free view of articles.
KDE
- GCompris: It is a set of high-quality educational programs that contains a large number of activities for children between 2 and 10 years old.
- Calcium: It is a program that shows the periodic table of the elements, and allows us to search for information about them to learn more about the periodic table, in general.
- KAlgebra: It is a graphical and scientific calculator app that offers numerical, logical, symbolic and analysis functions to calculate mathematical expressions and graphically draw their result in two or three dimensions.
- KGeography: It is a geography learning tool that allows us to know the political divisions of some countries (divisions, the capitals of these divisions and their associated flags, if any exist).
- KTechlab: It is an integrated development environment (IDE) for microcontrollers and electronics designed to be easy to use and as non-intrusive as possible.
Top independent educational developments
- Tutor: It is an LMS platform designed to be accessible and adaptable to any educational environment.
- chamilo: It is an E-learning platform and multimodal learning management system.
- eLML: Open source XML framework for creating XML-structured e-lessons.
- ExeLearning: It is a free and open source editor of interactive educational resources.
- GeoGebra: It is a free interactive mathematics software for education in schools and universities.
- JClic: It is an application that allows you to create various types of interactive and multimedia activities.
- Moodle: It is a free and open source learning management system written in PHP.
- OpenTeacher: It is an open source app that allows us to teach and learn many topics.
- PHET: It is an open website of online simulations of educational scientific experiments.
- Stellarium: It is an educational software for the study of celestial bodies and astronomy.
And finally, if you liked today's topic, we invite you to explore the following link FSF (LibrePlanet) official where you will find many more Old and new apps for the educational field, or useful for the same.
Summary
In short, and as we can see with this small sample (Top) with some interesting ones «Educational Apps and Systems from the Linuxverse», Many can become really Very useful for teachers and trainers from the most diverse schools and universities in the world, as well as for Students of any age and educational level. And in case you as a Teacher or Student know and use other similar ones, we invite you to mention them via comments so that we can learn about them and take them into account for future publications about the educational Linuxverse.
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