Quantian
# Quantian

Quantian OS was a remastering of Knoppix/Debian for computational sciences. The environment was self-configuring and directly bootable CD/DVD that turns any PC or laptop (provided it can boot from cdrom/DVD) into a Linux workstation. Quantian also incorporated clusterKnoppix and added support for openMosix, including remote booting of light clients in an openMosix terminal server context permitting rapid setup of a SMP cluster computer.

## Applications

Numerous software packages for usual or scientific aims come with Quantian. After the installation, total package volume is about 2.7 GB (For the detailed package list see: List of all the available packages).

The packages for "home users" include:

* KDE, the default desktop environment and their components
* XMMS, Kaffeine, xine media players
* Internet access software, including the KPPP dialer, ISDN utilities and WLAN
* The Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox and Konqueror web browsers
* K3b, for CD (and DVD) management
* The GIMP, an image-manipulation program
* Tools for data rescue and system repair
* Network analysis and administration tools
* OpenOffice.org
* Kile, Lyx

Additionally, some of the scientific applications/programs in Quantian are such like:

* R, statistical computing software
* Octave, a Matlab clone
* Scilab, another Matlab clone
* GSL, GNU Scientific Library
* Maxima computer algebra system
* Python programming language with Scipy
* Fityk curve fitter
* Ghemical for computational chemistry
* Texmacs for wysiwyg scientific editing
* Grass geographic information system
* OpenDX and MayaVi data visualisation systems
* Gnuplot, a command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility
* LabPlot, an application for plotting of data sets and functions
