Quantian is a directly bootable and
self-configuring Linux system on a single
CD-ROM/DVD. Based on Knoppix and clusterKnoppix,
it provides out-of-the box support for openMosix,
as well as about several GB of additional software
with a quantitative, numerical, or scientific
focus. Such software includes R (with many
packages from CRAN, BioConductor, and Rmetrics),
Octave (including several add-on packages), Python
(with Scientific Python, NumPy, and BioPython
extensions), several computer-algebra systems,
several graphics and visualizations packages, as
well as a large number of other scientific or
numeric packages, programming tools, and general
utilities.
