Új Quantian kiadás érhető el 0.3.9.1-es verziószámmal. 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.
Bejelentés:A new Quantian release (tentatively named 0.3.9.1 to show its status as a
test for a 0.4 release planned for the end of September) has been uploaded
a few days ago.
This note is being sent in the hope that some of you may be able to aid in
testing and debugging, or simply by offering helpful suggestions as many of
you have in the past. What is new:
o Updated Knoppix / clusterKnoppix iso images from early Sep 2003 with as
usual improved hardware detection and additional drivers, as well as
updated packages in their set.
o Updated Quantian packages, mostly from testing -- but R, Octave, GSL,
QuantLib from unstable.
o Not many new packages have added in 0.3.9.1; however R packages for coda,
mcmcpack, design, hmisc, car and Rcmd are now in; the 0.3.9.2 release
that is currently being prepared will have the ipe, felt and lush
packages requested by some of you.
o I will probably remove grass in 0.3.9.2 as a) the package is rather
big at 88mb, b) a little outdated in the Debian archive and the newer
unofficial I had been made aware of is no longer to be found and c) even
at 88mb still lacks example data which I'd have to add to make grass
more useful as installed.
o In that spirit, I would welcome feedback on what else could be removed
(in order to make space for Quantian apps) before the remaining Knoppix
functionality is considered too rudimentary. I essentially removed
openoffice, all i18n related packages, wine, gimp, all (most?) games, all
window managers but KDE and fluxbox, all non-free programs (but one
exception, ggobi), mysql server, php4, nessus, lvm10, nvtv, palm-pilot
related software, gnomemeeting.
o BUT still retain all of
- KDE Office plus the Gnome Office programs gnumeric and abiword, lyx.
- A lot of networking functionality related to PPP, ISDN etc
- A lot of sysadmin and networking tools
- A lot of other stuff
I would like to get a feel for where users think we can still make room
for quantitative software. Or maybe that the current mix is good?
I have put the detailed 'dpkg -l' list on the web at
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/quantian_0.3.9.2_packages.txt
for persual.
o As for suggestions for new packages: Keep'em coming! In general, what
works best is something that is already in Debian and packaged ok.
Barring that, an existing .deb helps a lot, but it must be reasonably
well done and of course be Free Software that can be redistributed.
I will not be in a position to add packages to Debian myself as I
have already a fair number to look after.
Thanks in advance for any and all comments,
Dirk