Quantian

Quantian
Company / developer Dirk Eddelbuettel
OS family Unix-like
Working state Current
Source model Open source
Latest stable release 7.9.2 / March 1, 2006
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:

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

References