Re: New Quantian release 0.6.9.3 available

Cool stuff.

Many thanks!

Moshe


On Dec 15, 2004, at 8:29 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

>
>
> (Please see note [1] below regarding recipients for this posting. 
> Thanks!)
>
>
> Executive Summary:
>
>     Quantian 0.6.9.3 extends the Quantian series based on Knoppix 3.6
>     and the corresponding clusterKnoppix release. Several new packages
>     (Rpad, clustalw, seaview, iraf) were installed, a number of 
> packages
>     (Octave 2.1.64, Scilab 3.0 among them) were updated, and the CRAN
>     packages were updated as of December 11.
>
>
> Announcing Quantian release 0.6.9.3
> ===================================
>
>
> 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 Third release based on Knoppix 3.6 adding
>         - the Rpad (www.rpad.org) interactive web-based R Gui by Tom 
> Short,
>           fully configured and launchable via a simple command or menu 
> entry
>         - about ten new packages from CRAN released since Quantian 
> 0.6.9.2
>         - about fifteen CRAN packages updated to current versions as 
> Dec 11
>         - addition of the dse, CoCo, gregmisc bundles omitted in 
> 0.6.9.2
>         - new packages such as clustalw/clustalx/clustalw-mpi, 
> seaview, iraf
>         - Octave and Scilab updated to the newest versions from Debian 
> unstable
>
>     o Total size is still 2.0 gb for the compressed iso image 
> corresponding
>       to about 6 gb of uncompressed software.
>
>     o See http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/changelog.html for 
> details.
>
>     o See http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/howto.html for several
>       short HOWTOs on booting Quantian from hd on either Windows or 
> Linux,
>       booting via a bootcd (such as clusterKnoppix), or botting from a
>       USB memory device.  Contributions, corrections, and feedback on 
> these
>       HOWTOs is always appreciated.
>
>
> 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
>
>             http://research.warnes.net/downloads/quantian/CURRENT/
> 	    ftp://research.warnes.net/users/edd/quantian/CURRENT/
>
>       The most recent release is also available at
>
>             http://quantian.alioth.debian.org/
>
>     o Bittorrents are available via
>
>             http://www.analytics.washington.edu:6969/
>
>     o The main European mirrors should catch up shortly:
>
>             http://sunsite.rediris.es/mirror/quantian
>
>             
> http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/quantian
>
>     o CD/DVD vendors will probably update their offerings soon as well.
>       BudgetLinuxCDs.com is typically the fastest:
>
>           
> http://www.budgetlinuxcds.com/index.php?page=Choose&letter=Q&sort=upd
>
>       and CheapBytes should follow shortly:
>
>             http://www.cheapbytes.com
>
>       Pointers to other vendors are always appreciated.
>
>
> IV  Mailing lists
>
>     o Two mailing lists exist 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).
>
>       Reply-To: for this message is 
> quantian-general-XbBxUvOt3X2LieD7tvxI8l/[email protected]
>       so that discussions can be continued on the list.
>
>
> V  Known Bugs
>
>     o Sound does not appear to get configured on my laptops.
>
>
> VI   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.
>
>     o Feedback would also be appreciated on ways to better communicate 
> with
>       difference scientific communities that could be interested in 
> Quantian.
>
>
> VII 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.
>
>
>
> Best regards,  Dirk
>
>
> -- 
> If you don't go with R now, you will someday.
>   -- David Kane on r-sig-finance, 30 Nov 2004
>
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