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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-featured 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.
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:
* [http://www.r-project.org/ R], statistical computing software
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave], a Matlab clone
* [http://www.scilab.org/ Scilab], another Matlab clone
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ GSL], GNU Scientific Library
* [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima] computer algebra system
* [http://www.python.org/ Python] programming language with [http://www.scipy.org/ numerical and scientific Python]
* [http://www.unipress.waw.pl/fityk/ Fityk] curve fitter
* [http://bioinformatics.org/ghemical/ghemical/index.html gchemical] for computational chemistry
* [http://www.texmacs.org/ Texmacs] for wysiwyg scientific editing
* [http://grass.itc.it/ Grass] geographic information system
* [http://www.opendx.org/ OpenDX] and [http://mayavi.sourceforge.net/ Mayavi] data visualisation systems
* [http://www.gnuplot.info/ gnuplot], a command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility for UNIX, IBM OS/2, MS Windows, DOS, Macintosh, VMS, Atari and many other platforms.
* [http://labplot.sourceforge.net/ LabPlot], an application for plotting of data sets and functions
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