Company / developer | Dirk Eddelbuettel |
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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.
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: