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.
Applications
Numerous software packages for general or scientific aims come with Quantian. After the installation, total package volume is about 2.7 GB.
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
External links Quantian Home Page