Quantian

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Quantian
Developer Dirk Eddelbuettel
OS family Linux (Unix-like)
Working stateCurrent
Source model Open source
Latest release 7.9.2 / March 1, 2006
Official website Quantian Home Page

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.[ citation needed ] 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.

Applications

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Some scientific applications in Quantian

Numerous software packages for usual or scientific aims come with Quantian. After the installation, total package volume is about 2.7 GB.

The packages for "home users" include:

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