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Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is available for the x86_64 and AArch64 processor architectures.
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2008-07-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Poseidon Linux 3.0 |
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Christian dos Santos Ferreira has announced the release of Poseidon Linux 3.0, an Ubuntu-based distribution enhanced with software for scientific and academic purpose, including applications for numerical modelling, 2D/3D/4D visualisation and statistics: "Our team is proud to announce the new Poseidon Linux 3.0! Poseidon Linux was designed as a friendly and complete desktop, based on open source software and aimed at the scientific community. This operating system is based on Ubuntu and inspired by Quantian Linux. It offers several specific tools in the areas of GIS, 3D Visualization, Mathematics, Statistics and several other fields of research. It also has all the software expected in a modern desktop, such as office suites, web browsers, e-mail readers, etc. The new release supports Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, English and German languages." Here is the brief release announcement (in Portuguese), and further information is also available on the project's English web site. Download (MD5): Poseidon_3.0.iso (1,693MB).
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Poseidon Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution designed primarily for academic and scientific use. It is based on Ubuntu LTS, enhancing its parent by adding a large number of applications for GIS/maps, numerical modelling, 2D/3D/4D visualisation, statistics, genetics, creating simple and complex graphics, and programming languages. The usual software for daily use, such as the LibreOffice suite, Internet browsers, instant messaging and chat clients are also included.
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2011-07-28 |
Distribution Release: Poseidon Linux 4.0 |
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Gonzalo Velasco has announced the release of Poseidon Linux 4.0, an Ubuntu-based distribution with focus on scientific computing: "Poseidon Linux 4.0 is here. Our new release is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (with 3 years of updates guaranteed by Canonical) as our goals are stability, usability and support for the whole system when used professionally at universities, institutes, colleges and at home. Poseidon Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution designed for the academic and scientific community; it includes a large number of scientific applications, covering areas such as: GIS and geostatistics, visualization, mathematics, statistics, physics, chemistry, CAD, engineering, computer graphics, image editing and vector drawing, numeric modelling and simulation, scientific graphs, scientific authoring...." Visit the project's home page to read the full release announcement. Download: Poseidon_Linux4_32bit.iso (3,731MB, MD5).
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2008-11-27 |
Distribution Release: Poseidon Linux 3.1 |
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Poseidon Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution with a good collection of academic and scientific applications for GIS/maps, numerical modelling, 2D/3D/4D visualisation, statistics and graphics. An updated version 3.1 was released yesterday. What's new? "Based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 with security updates until 2008-10-17; for the first time Poseidon Linux comes in 32-bit and 64-bit editions; updated packages - Firefox 3.0.3, WINE 1.0, GRASS 6.3, R 2.7.2, Spring 5.0 in English, MB System 5.1.1 beta 23; new additions - VirtualBox OSE, Open Universe Simulator, Gwyddion, SagCAD, Emacs (with support for Prolog and Gri), Maxima, Prolog, Xetex, ghemical, Fontforge, Hugin panorama editor, Gnumeric, Bluefish, Avidemux, Audacity; Terraview is not included in the 64-bit edition." Visit the distribution's home page (in Portuguese) to read the release announcement (a changelog in English is available here). Download (MD5): Poseidon.3.1_32bits.iso (2,112MB), Poseidon.3.1-64bits.iso (2,145MB).
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