A Quantian Dirk Eddelbuettel (Debian-fejlesztő) Tudományos Linux terjesztése. A terjesztés KNOPPIX alapú, elsősorban a tudományos számításokat, kutatásokat szeretné támogatni. Ennek megfelelően, ilyen jellegű tevékenységet támogató csomagokból épül fel a rendszer.
Megjelent a Quantian 0.3.9.2-es verziója. Bejelentés:Thanks for your feedback on Quantian 0.3.9.1. I made a follow-up release 0.3.9.2 based on the same clusterKnoppix pre-release -- see the usual
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html
for the links to the iso images at U of Washington and U of Wisc/Madison.
0.3.9.2 adds (in alphabetical order)
o ent, a test program for random number generators
o felt, an finite element package
o gap-character-tables to complete the gap cas
o giac, another cas; the package also includes the x11 frontend xcas
o ipe, a drawing/graphics editor
o kile, a KDE environment for LaTeX
o lush, a Lisp numerics shell
o mpb, the MIT Photonic Bands
o rpy, an interface to from Python to GNU R
o tcl/tk extra widget packages iwidgets4, bwidget, tktable
o texmacs-fonts, but it looks like texmacs still re-computes fonts
o wajig, a simplied/unified Debian package management frontend
o x12a, the US Census x-12-arima time series tool (used by GNU Gretl)
but also removes
o grass (88mb before grass data is added, Debian package outdated, newer package no longer on website)
o telnetd-ssl as there was some configuration error; ssh if course still included
0.3.9.2 is as before based on Klaus' 2003-09-05 Knoppix release, kernel 2.4.22, and openmosix for 2.4.22.
Next, I will use the now released clusterKnoppix 3.2_2003-09-05_cl1 to make a test release 0.3.9.3 -- this will include gomd and chpox which Wim added. Either 0.3.9.3 (or, if needed) a bug-fix release 0.3.9.4 should then turn into Quantian 0.4. I hope to have 0.3.9.3 out by Tuesday.
Thanks, Dirk