title: Quantian
text: # 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
  