Poseidon Linux

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Poseidon Linux
Poseidon Linux 3.0 showing menu
Website	poseidon.furg.br
Company/ developer	Poseidon Linux team
OS family	Linux
Source model	Open source
Latest stable release	2.0; (3.0 beta) / July 2006 (April 2008)
Kernel type	Monolithic kernel
Default user interface	Gnome
License	Various
Working state	Current

The logo of Poseidon linux

Poseidon Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution, originally based on Kurumin Linux, now based on Ubuntu developed and maintained by a team of young scientists from the Rio Grande Federal University Foundation [1] in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (check http://poseidon.furg.br).

The name ("Poseidon" was the god of the sea in Greek mythology) derives from the large number of oceanologists involved in the development of the system.

It contains many free software programs used by scientists, such as the Fortran programming language, Kile and Lyx for scientific writing, numerical modeling, 2D/3D/4D visualization, statistics, and several tools that support GIS and mapping, along with day-by-day utilities like OpenOffice.org (with spell-checkers), multimedia, etc. (even some games)[2].

Due to its wide acceptance also outside the Portuguese-speaking scientific community and to the eventual shut down of the Kurumin project[3], the Poseidon project has changed the base distribution to Ubuntu, also to provide versions in Spanish, English and others (for further details check this: [4]). The core of Poseidon is always Debian due to the higher stability and great repository sites.

The current running version is 2.0. However version 3.0 is almost ready [5] and was pre-presented at the 9^th Free Software International Forum (2008) - FISL9.0 [6] .

The establishment of the Poseidon Linux foundation (Portuguese: ONG Poseidon Linux) has been announced, to steer further development of the distribution.