[Quantian-announce] RE: [openMosix-general] New Quantian release 0.5.9.4 available
Moshe Bar
moshe.bar@moshebar.com
Sun, 12 Sep 2004 05:43:28 -0700
Cool!
Moshe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openmosix-general-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:openmosix-general-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On
> Behalf Of Dirk Eddelbuettel
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 7:39 PM
> To: quantian-announce@lists.alioth.debian.org;
> quantian-list@eddelbuettel.com
> Subject: [openMosix-general] New Quantian release 0.5.9.4 available
>
>
> (Please see below at note [1] for a note on the posting. Thanks!)
>
>
> Executive Summary:
> ------------------
> Quantian 0.5.9.4 adds many more packages on top of the previous
> release. Among the new packages are 50 new
> CRAN/BioConductor packages for
> R, as well as a variety of other packages such as pcb,
> gpsim, gnucap,
> xcircuit, transcalc, xd3d, QtiPlot, the Alliance VHDL and
> more. Packages
> such as Gnumeric and LyX are re-introduced, and a few
> small packaging bugs
> have been corrected. The total size of the iso is now
> 1.74gb corresponding
> to about 5.5gb uncomressed.
>
>
>
> ===================================
> Announcing Quantian release 0.5.9.4
> ===================================
>
>
> I What is it?
> ---------------
>
> Quantian is a remastering of Knoppix, the
> self-configuring and directly
> bootable cdrom/dvd that turns any pc or laptop into a
> full-featured Linux
> workstation, and clusterKnoppix, which adds 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 Fourth release based on Knoppix 3.4 with many changes
> from both new and
> updated packages, still based on Knoppix 3.4 and the
> clusterKnoppix
> release from May 10 with kernel 2.4.26 with the 'testing status'
> openMosix patch as well as a non-openMosix kernel 2.6.6
> -- this may
> become the final '0.5.9.*' release and get relabelled
> 0.6 unless new
> bugs are found.
>
> o New Quantian software includes
> - another 50 GNU R packages from CRAN and BioConductor provided
> unparalled depth for statistical computing with a total of 440
> R packages;
> - re-introduced Gnumeric as well as LyX and LyX-Qt;
> - pcb to complement GNU eda as suggested by Chris Steigies;
> - a variety of astronomy-related packages suggested by
> Gopal Narayanan:
> saoimage, gpsim, gnucap, oregano, icom, xcircuit,
> vipec, xsmc-calc,
> transcalc, setiathome, tkseti, xplanet, xplanet-images;
> - two new visualisation packages: xd3d and QtiPlot;
> - Alliance, a complete CAD tool and library for VLSI;
> - several fixes suggested or provided by Marco Caliari,
> included a
> boot splash screen and improved minirt24/minirt26 boot images;
> - header packages for atlas3 and lam are now included
> - plus lots of fancy GL screensavers;
>
> o Total size is now about 1.74gb for the compressed iso image,
> corresponding to more than 5.5gb of uncompressed software;
>
> o As the underlying kernel is unchanged, the cdrom size version of
> 0.5.9.2, as well as the small 7gb bootable cdrom
> provided by Marco
> Caliari can still be used to boot this image if no
> bootable dvd is
> available;
>
> o Now with three main download sites:
> -- at University of Washington in Seattle, Washington:
> http://www.analytics.washington.edu/downloads/quantian/
> which also provides bittorrents and bittorrent monitors:
> http://www.analytics.washington.edu:6969/
> -- at Debian's Alioth site (hosted in California ?):
> http://quantian.alioth.debian.org/
> -- and now also from Greg Warnes' machine research.warnes.net
> hosted at the CS department at Yale in New Haven,
> Connecticut:
> http://research.warnes.net/downloads/quantian/CURRENT/
>
> o And of course still available:the mailing lists for Quantian
>
> 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).
>
> I also set the Reply-To: for this message to
> quantian-general@lists.alioth.debian.org so that
> discussions can be
> continued on the list.
>
> o See
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/changelog.html for details.
>
>
> III Where do I get it?
> ----------------------
>
> o Downloads are available from the three main hosts
> already listed
> above:
> http://www.analytics.washington.edu/downloads/quantian/
> http://quantian.alioth.debian.org/
> http://research.warnes.net/downloads/quantian/CURRENT/
> one of which already has torrents running on 0.5.9.4:
> http://www.analytics.washington.edu:6969/
>
> o European mirrors, bittorrent site and cdrom vendors
> will hopefully
> catch up over the next few days. See
>
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html
>
> for download info.
>
> o As with the previous releases, dvd/cdrom vendors should
> have pre-made
> offerings available within a few days.
>
>
> IV Known Bugs
> --------------
>
> o cdrdao is not setuid root, should get fixed in the next release.
>
>
> 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.
>
> Please send feedback, questions, comments, ... to the
>
> quantian-general@lists.alioth.debian.org
>
> list to maximise the number of eyes glancing at any one
> question.
> For the same reason, the reply-to address for this
> announcement is set
> to the quantian-general list.
>
>
> [1] Note
>
> This email is sent to those whose email addresses are in
> my quantian
> mail folder due to prior emails, plus LWN and DWN who had
> run previous
> announcements, and as suggested, the openmosix-general,
> clusterknoppix
> and debian-knoppix lists. Anybody who considers this
> unwanted is kindly
> asked to send me a private mail and I will immediately remove the
> corresponding alias entry.
>
>
> Best regards, Dirk
>
>
> --
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> I have others.
> -- Groucho Marx
>
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