[PLUG] An Alternative to Knoppix
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
znmeb at cesmail.net
Sat Oct 8 01:58:48 UTC 2005
Yes ... Quantian is very cool indeed. The most recent versions have been
on DVDs; if you want a CD-sized Quantian you need to go back a few releases.
One more Quantian goodie: if you have a room full of machines, you can
boot Quantian up on all of them and have a cluster ready to run! I call
it a Supercomputer on a DVD. :)
Rich Shepard wrote:
> Those of you with a scientific perspective might be interested in the
> Quantian live CD <http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html>. Based on
> Knoppix, this bootable linux distribution devotes about 25% of the
> space to
> scientific tools. Included are R, Octave, GRASS, and LyX.
>
> Like Knoppix, burn copies and give 'em away. It looks like a good
> one for
> technical folks.
>
> Rich
>
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