Quantian

"Quantian OS" is a remastering of Knoppix/Debian for computational sciences. The environment is self-configuring and directly bootable cdrom/DVD that turns any PC or laptop (provided it can boot from cdrom/DVD) into a full-featuredFact|date=November 2007 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.

Infobox_OS
name = Quantian


caption = Quantian 7.9.2
developer = [http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/ Dirk Eddelbuettel]
family = Linux, Knoppix, Debian
source_model = Open source
working_state = Current
latest_release_version = 7.9.2
latest_release_date = March 1, 2006
website = [http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html Quantian Home Page]

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: [http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/quantian_0.7.9.2.quantian.packages.txt List of all the available packages] ).

The packages for "home users" include:
*KDE, the default desktop environment and their components
*XMMS, Kaffeine, xine media players
*Internet access software, including the KPPP dialer, ISDN utilities and WLAN
*The Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox and Konqueror web browsers
*K3b, for CD (and DVD) management
*The GIMP, an image-manipulation program
*Tools for data rescue and system repair
*Network analysis and administration tools
*OpenOffice.org
*Kile, Lyx

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

*R, statistical computing software
*Octave, a Matlab clone
*Scilab, another Matlab clone
*GSL, GNU Scientific Library
*Maxima computer algebra system
*Python programming language with Scipy
*Fityk curve fitter
* [http://bioinformatics.org/ghemical/ghemical/index.html Gchemical] for computational chemistry
*Texmacs for wysiwyg scientific editing
*Grass geographic information system
*OpenDX and MayaVi data visualisation systems
*Gnuplot, a command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility
*LabPlot, an application for plotting of data sets and functions

References

* [http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html Quantian Home Page]