Re: New Quantian release 0.6.9.1 available (resending announcement)

It works beautifully!

It's my standard distro. 

Many thanks!

Moshe


On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:31:38 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote:
> (This is a reposting -- in my switch to using the quantian-announce mailing
> list, the three mailing lists for Knoppix, clusterKnoppix, openMosix seem to
> have fallen off the wagon. My sincere apologies -- Dirk)
> 
> (Please see note [1] below regarding recipients for this posting. Thanks!)
> 
> Executive Summary:
> 
>     Quantian 0.6.9.1 begins a new Quantian series based on Knoppix 3.6 and
>     the corresponding clusterKnoppix release. The iso file of about 2.0 gb
>     contains updates throughout such as new Linux kernels 2.4.27 and 2.6,7,
>     openMosix based on the 20040808 patches to 2.4.27 as well as a kernel
>     shared memory migration patch, KDE 3.2.3, R 2.0.0 and numerous other
>     updates among the over 1900 Debian packages that comprise Quantian.
> 
> Announcing Quantian release 0.6.9.1
> ===================================
> 
> 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-based
>     cluster computing. However, Quantian differs from (cluster)Knoppix by
>     adding a very 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 First release based on Knoppix 3.6 [2] offering
>         - Linux kernels 2.4.27 and 2.6.7, both ACPI-enabled.
>         - KDE version 3.2.3 and GIMP version 2.0.
>         - enhanced hardware autodetection and driver updates,
>         - the FreeNX server from Fabian Franz,
>         - ndiswrapper to load proprietary drivers for wireless network cards,
>         - memtest86+ as boot option
>         - captive-ntfs update
>       and clusterKnoppix
>         - openMosix 2.4.27-om-20040808 based on http://openmosix.snarc.org
>         - openmosix-tools 0.3.6-2
>         - tyd 1.5 from Ian Latter, also options to boot nodes from Ian' chaos
>           mini-distribution vai PXE clients (chaos kernel upgraded to
>           openmosix 2.4.27-om-20040808 and 2.4.27-om-migshm-20040808)
>         - added: openswan 2.1.5, ipw2100, drbd, fuse, bcm4400 (debian package)
>         - new feature: option to boot 2.4.27-om-migshm-20040808 from
>           http://dev.gentoo.org/~voxus/om/ for shared memory migration
> 
>     o Quantian includes everything contained in release 0.5.9.4 aka 0.6, and
>       0.4.9.6 aka 0.5 with the exception of added CRAN/BioC packages.  Numerous
>       packages were updated, including R 2.0.0 and Octave 2.1.60,
> 
>       Meta-packages are also included from several Debian subprojects:
>         - everything from Debian-Med with the exception of med-cms is included
>         - everything from Debian-Edu is included
>         - from Debian-Junior, the kde, math, programming and puzzle packages
>           are included.
> 
>       A few new packages such as ddd and slicot were added to complement the
>       existing set of now over 1900 Debian packages installed with Quantian.
> 
>       CRAN packages for R should get added back in once I get time to complete
>       work on the script used to build Debian packages off the 500-some CRAN
>       packages.
> 
>       Full details are in the package lists at
>           http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian_0.6.9.1.quantian.packages.txt
>           http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian_0.6.9.1.quantian.txt
> 
>     o Total size is currently about 2.0 gb for the compressed iso image,
>       corresponding to around 4.4 gb of uncompressed software.
> 
>     o The previous version 0.5.9.4 was also relabelled 0.6 -- no need to
>       re-download this version as it is identical.  This version has been
>       seen to be stable, hence the new label as the official 0.6 release for
>       this final version of pre-0.6 releases.
> 
>     o Still with two "main" download sites:
>         - West Coast 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/
>         - East Coast on Greg Warnes' machine research.warnes.net
>           hosted at the CS department at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut:
>              ftp://research.warnes.net/users/edd/quantian/CURRENT/
>          (where the normal link
>              http://research.warnes.net/downloads/quantian/CURRENT/
>          is currently broken but should return in due course).
> 
>       as well Debian's Alioth host containing the most recent release only:
>              http://quantian.alioth.debian.org
> 
>     o And two mailing lists for Quantian
> 
>         quantian-announce         for announcements, intended to be low volume
>         quantian-general          for general discussions about Quantian
> 
>       available via
> 
>         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-XbBxUvOt3X2LieD7tvxI8l/[email protected]   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 main hosts already listed above, i.e.
>       on the West Coast at
>             http://www.analytics.washington.edu/downloads/quantian/
>       and at the East Coast at
>             ftp://research.warnes.net/users/edd/quantian/CURRENT/
>       (where the normal link
>             http://research.warnes.net/downloads/quantian/CURRENT/
>        is currently broken but should return in due course).
> 
>       The most recent release is also available at
>             http://quantian.alioth.debian.org/
> 
>     o Bittorrents are available at
>             http://www.analytics.washington.edu/downloads/quantian/torrents/
>       and also at the nicer overview pahe
>             http://www.analytics.washington.edu:6969/
>       once the bittorrents indices are updated.
>       In CT, torrents should become available in
>             http://research.warnes.net/downloads/torrents/
> 
>     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.
> 
> IV  Known Bugs
> 
>     o Sound does not appear to get configured on my laptops.
> 
> V   Other items
> 
>     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-XbBxUvOt3X2LieD7tvxI8l/[email protected]
> 
>       list to maximise the number of eyes glancing at any one question.
> 
> VI Notes
> 
>     [1] This email is sent via the quantian-announce mailing list. I have
>         subscribed those whose email addresses are in my quantian mail folder
>         due to prior emails. The quantian-announce mailing list only sends
>         moderator-approved posts -- so there should be no spam whatsoever. I
>         also added 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 to get unsubscribed immediately.
> 
>     [2] Knoppix 3.5 was released only during the Linuxtag exhibition in
>         Germany whereas 'official' Knoppix releases jumped from 3.4 to 3.6.
> 
> Best regards,  Dirk
> 
> --
> If your hair is standing up, then you are in extreme danger.
>       -- http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfp/cockpit-phys/fp1ex3.htm
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