Quantian
Quantian OS was a remastering of Knoppix/Debian for computational sciences. The environment was 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 incorporated clusterKnoppix and added support for openMosix, including remote booting of light clients in an openMosix terminal server context permitting rapid setup of a SMP cluster computer.
| Developer | Dirk Eddelbuettel |
|---|---|
| OS family | Unix-like |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source |
| Latest release | 7.9.2 / March 1, 2006 |
| Official website | 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: 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
- Ghemical 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
