[Quantian-announce] New Quantian release 0.4.9.5 available
Dirk Eddelbuettel
edd@debian.org
Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:10:05 -0600
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From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
To: quantian-list@eddelbuettel.com
Subject: New Quantian release 0.4.9.5 available
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Announcing Quantian release 0.4.9.5
===================================
I What is it?
Quantian is a remastering of Knoppix, the self-configuring and directly
bootable cdrom that turns any pc or laptop into a full-featured Linux
workstation. Recent versions of Quantian are based on clusterKnoppix
and add support for openMosix. However, Quantian differs from
(cluster)Knoppix by adding a large set of programs of interest to applied
or theoretical workers in quantitative or data-driven fields.
See http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html for more details.
II What is new?
o Bug fix release relative to 0.4.9.4, no major changes
o Updated R packages based on the first pre-release of the upcoming
1.9.0 release, updated CRAN packages and a few new CRAN packages:
multcomp, mvtnorn, relimp, and the uebercool rgl
o Updated Octave packages based on the just released 2.1.56, and a
matching octave-forge release
o Improved support for Scientific Python, though scipy.test() still
moans, we hope to sort that out shortly
o The ftnchek package for Fortran'ers
o But most importantly, we now have a custom logo for openmosixview
in the KDE menubar -- thanks to Mathias Rechenburg for contributing
this!
Also see http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/changelog.html for details.
o Mailing lists for Quantian are now up and running
Following the 0.4.9.3 release, a Quantian project was opened on
alioth.debian.org. So far the only use of the alioth infrastructure
has been the creation of two mailing lists
quantian-announce for announcements, intended to be low volume
quantian-general for general discussions about Quantian
Please go to
http://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=1425
for subscription info etc., and start using the quantian-general lists for
general questions, comments, suggestions or discussions about Quantian.
Quantian-general is subscribed to quantian-announce, so you only need
to subscribe to one (but can of course subscribe to both).
III Where do I get it?
Downloads are available from the two main hosts both of which also
provide rsync:
o U of Washington:
- http://www.analytics.washington.edu/downloads/quantian
- rsync://www.analytics.washington.edu::quantian
o U of Wisconsin/Madison:
- http://franz.stat.wisc.edu/~edd/quantian
- rsync://rsync.r-project.org::quantian
o European mirror, bittorrent site and cdrom vendors will hopefully
catch up over the next few days. See
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html
for download info.
IV Known Bugs
o Still based on kernel 2.4.24 -- this is an improvement over Quantian
0.4.9.3 with kernel 2.4.22, but unfortunately the openMosix patch
for 2.4.25 isn't quite ready yet.
o Scientific Python's 'scipy.test()' does not pass all tests/
V Other items
o Mailing lists have been created, see above.
o Feedback / poll on package additions or removal
As always, I welcome comments and suggestions about programs to be
added or removed. Existing Debian packages get pushed to the front of
the line.
Best regards, Dirk
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