Poseidon Linux

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Poseidon Linux
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Developer Poseidon Linux team
OS family Linux (Unix-like)
Working stateDiscontinued
Source model Open source
Latest release 9.0 / Sept 2017
Kernel type Monolithic kernel
Default
user interface
GNOME
License Various
Official website sites.google.com/site/poseidonlinux/Home

Poseidon Linux was a Linux operating system based on Ubuntu (originally based on Kurumin), it was maintained by developers located at the Rio Grande Federal University [1] in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and the MARUM institute in Germany.

Contents

Poseidon Linux was aimed at the international scientific community, it came with a range of applications for fields such as GIS, 3D visualization, and statistics. [2]

Naming

The name Poseidon was chosen after the Greek God because many of the projects developers worked in Oceanology.

History

The development team stated that after Poseidon 5.0, the distribution would focus on bathymetry, seafloor mapping, and GIS software. [3] Many of the bundled CAD and scientific programs were removed, but may be separately available for download from compatible repositories.

Around 2016 the 3 main Poseidon Linux domains (poseidon.furg.br, es.poseidonlinux.org, en.poseidonlinux.org) seemingly expired and their google site domain rebranded from "the Official Website of Poseidon Linux in English" to "The Official Website of Poseidon Linux" [4]

The project is seemingly dead with the last release having been in 2017.

Releases

Timeline [5] [6]
VersionDateComment
2.02005?The release date may be 2005-10-25.
3.02008-06-21The projects base distribution was changed from Kurumin to Ubuntu LTS. For the first time a 64-bit version was released.
4.02010-10-27Based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
5.02013/2014?Based on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS.
6.0
7.02015-07-03Based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
8.02016-11-23Based on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS.
9.02017-09-29Based on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS.

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References

  1. "Página inicial - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG".
  2. Schroder, Carla (August 23, 2011). "First Look at Poseidon Linux, the Linux For Scientists". Linux.com. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
  3. "Poseidon Linux - The Scientific GNU/Linux for Seafloor Mapping". sites.google.com. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
  4. "Archive of Poseidonlinux.org". Archived from the original on December 8, 2014.
  5. "DistroWatch.com: Poseidon Linux".
  6. "Poseidon Linux - The Scientific GNU/Linux for Seafloor Mapping". sites.google.com. Retrieved July 27, 2017.