Quantian
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Quantian OS is a remastering of Knoppix/Debian for computational sciences. The environment is self-configuring and directly bootable cdrom/dvd that turns any pc or laptop (provided it can boot from cdrom/dvd) into a full-featured 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.
 Quantian 7.9.2 |
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| Website: | Quantian Home Page |
| Company/ developer: |
Dirk Eddelbuettel |
| OS family: | Linux, Knoppix, Debian |
| Source model: | Open source |
| Latest stable release: | 7.9.2 / March 1, 2006 |
| Working state: | Current |
[edit] 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 numerical and scientific Python
- Fityk curve fitter
- gchemical 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 for UNIX, IBM OS/2, MS Windows, DOS, Macintosh, VMS, Atari and many other platforms.
- LabPlot, an application for plotting of data sets and functions
