Quantian

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Developer Dirk Eddelbuettel Working state Current Latest release 7.9.2 / March 1, 2006		OS family Unix-like Source model Open source Official website Quantian Home Page

Quantian OS is a remastering of Knoppix/Debian for computational sciences. The environment is self-configuring and directly bootable CD/DVD that turns any PC or laptop (provided it can boot from cdrom/DVD) into a Linux workstation. Quantian also incorporates clusterKnoppix and adds support for openMosix, including remote booting of light clients in an openMosix terminal server context permitting rapid setup of a SMP cluster computer.

Applications

Numerous software packages for usual or scientific aims come with Quantian. After the installation, total package volume is about 2.7 GB (For the detailed package list see: List of all the available packages).

The packages for "home users" include:

KDE, the default desktop environment and their components

XMMS, Kaffeine, xine media players

Internet access software, including the KPPP dialer, ISDN utilities and WLAN

The Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox and Konqueror web browsers

K3b, for CD (and DVD) management

The GIMP, an image-manipulation program

Tools for data rescue and system repair

Network analysis and administration tools

OpenOffice.org

Kile, Lyx

Additionally, some of the scientific applications/programs in Quantian are such like:

R, statistical computing software

Octave, a Matlab clone

Scilab, another Matlab clone

GSL, GNU Scientific Library

Maxima computer algebra system

Python programming language with Scipy

Fityk curve fitter

Ghemical for computational chemistry

Texmacs for wysiwyg scientific editing

Grass geographic information system

OpenDX and MayaVi data visualisation systems

Gnuplot, a command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility

LabPlot, an application for plotting of data sets and functions

References

Quantian Wikipedia

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