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Quantian Scientific Computing Environment
A Knoppix/Debian variant tailored to numerical and quantitative analysis, Quantian was a remastering of Knoppix, the self-configuring and directly bootable CDROM that turns any PC or laptop (provided it can boot from CDROM) into a full-featured Linux workstation. The most recent version was based on clusterKnoppix and adds support for openMosix, including remote booting of light clients in an openMosix terminal server context. Quantian was an extension of Knoppix and clusterKnoppix from which it takes its base system of about 2GB of software, along with fully automatic hardware detection and configuration. However, Quantian differs from Knoppix by adding a set of programs of interest to applied or theoretical workers in quantitative or data-driven fields.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2023-11-30 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 44.0 |
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The 4MLinux project develops a lightweight distribution with a focus on four key areas (gaming, multimedia, servers, and maintenance. The project's latest release is version 44.0 which introduces some new features. The release announcement reads: "The status of the 4MLinux 44.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 7.6.3 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.5, GIMP 2.10.34, Gnumeric 1.12.55), surf the Internet with Firefox 119.0.1 and Chrome 119.0.6045.123, send emails via Thunderbird 115.4.2, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 4.3.1, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.20 and SMPlayer 23.6.0, play games powered by Mesa 23.1.4 and Wine 8.19. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 6.1.60, Apache 2.4.58, MariaDB 10.6.16, PHP 5.6.40, PHP 7.4.33, and PHP 8.1.25). Perl 5.36.0, Python 2.7.18, Python 3.11.4, and Ruby 3.2.2 are also available. As always, the new major release has some new features. Mesa3D drivers providing system-wide support for Video Acceleration API (VA-API) have been added. QMMP (audio player), Media Player Classic QT (video player), Capitan Sevilla (platform video game) are now available as downloadable extensions. Additionally, the new stable release offers improved support for SPL printing as well as wireless networking." Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-44.0-64bit.iso (1,197MB),
4MServer-44.0-64bit.iso (1,269MB). |
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| 4MLinux is a miniature Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and mystery (providing several small Linux games). The distribution includes support for booting on UEFI-enabled machines.
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| 2024-08-27 |
Distribution Release: 4MLinux 46.0 |
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4MLinux is a small Linux distribution with four areas of focus: system maintenance, multimedia, server, and games. The project's latest release is version 46.0 which no longer features a stand-alone Server edition. "As always, the new major release has some new features. The 4MLinux Server is now available out of the box (meaning that there is no separate 4MServer for download). Support for Windows Enhanced Metafiles (EMF images) as well as raw files from digital cameras (CRW/CR2, NEF, RAF, DNG images) has been added. Support for old audio formats (originating from Amiga, Commodore and the like) has been greatly improved. New applications: DVDAuthor (set of DVD authoring tools), qv4l2 (Qt-based application for testing V4L devices), VCDImager (set of VCD/SVCD authoring tools). Classic GNU Go game has been added to the 4MLinux GamePack package (downloadable extension). And finally, this is the first release that includes GTK version 4." Additional information is presented in the release announcement. Download (MD5): 4MLinux-46.0-64bit.iso (1,429MB, pkglist). |
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| 2024-03-18 |
Distribution Release: 4MLinux 45.0 |
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4MLinux is a small, indepedent distribution which focuses on four areas: network services, games, multimedia, and system rescue. The project's latest release, version 45.0, offers video scaling, new games, and upgrades the OpenSSL version to OpenSSL 3 from 1.1. "As always, the new major release has some new features. Lots of new printing drivers have been added. FFmpeg in 4MLinux now offers improved support for video scaling (resizing) via zimg library. Additionally, FFmpeg and MPlayer make us of Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP effect library (libbs2b) for better handling of stereo audio. Classic CHAMP Kong game has been added to the 4MLinux DOSBox package. Basilisk web browser is now available a downloadable extension. And finally, OpenSSL in 4MLinux has been system-wide upgraded to its version 3." Additional details are available in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-45.0-64bit.iso (1,371MB), 4MServer-45.0-64bit.iso (1,433MB). |
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| 2023-07-28 |
Distribution Release: 4MLinux 43.0 |
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The 4MLinux distribution - which focuses on server, multimedia, system rescue, and games - has published a new stable version: 4MLinux 43.0. The new release adds a few new media and game packages and provides additional web browsers as optional add-ons. The release announcement lists the key changes: "The status of the 4MLinux 43.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 7.5.5 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.5, GIMP 2.10.34, Gnumeric 1.12.55), surf the Internet with Firefox 115.0.2 and Chrome 115.0.5790.110, send emails via Thunderbird 115.0.1, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 4.3.1, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.18 and SMPlayer 23.6.0, play games powered by Mesa 23.1.1 and Wine 8.12. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 6.1.33, Apache 2.4.57, MariaDB 10.6.14, PHP 5.6.40, PHP 7.4.33, and PHP 8.1.19.). Perl 5.36.0, Python 2.7.18, Python 3.11.3, and Ruby 3.1.4 are also available. As always, the new major release has some new features. SoundFonts (for FluidSynth) and mtPaint (raster graphics editor) have been added. A few Java-based games (Flappy Bird, Karoshi, Micropolis, and Zuma) as well as a set proprietary web browsers (Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera) are now available as downloadable extensions." Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-43.0-64bit.iso (1,171MB), 4MServer-43.0-64bit.iso (1,242MB), 4MLinux-43.0-core.iso (14MB). |
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| 2023-04-10 |
Distribution Release: 4MLinux 42.0 |
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4MLinux is a miniature Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance, games, multimedia, and servers. The independent project's latest release is version 42.0 which introduces a few new applications and a series of updates. "4MLinux 42.0 stable released. The status of the 4MLinux 42.0 series has been changed to stable. As always, the new major release has some new features. Krita (raster graphics editor) and Hex-a-Hop (video game) have been added as downloadable extensions. 4MLinux 42.0 comes with improved support for many image, audio and video formats. AlsaPlayer, Baka MPlayer, GNOME MPlayer, GNOME MPV, mp3blaster are now available out of the box. Big work has been done to adopt famous (but quite old) XMMS as the default media player in 4MLinux; it is able to open modern audio and video files (support for MOD and MIDI music is also included). One can also download a rich set of XMMS skins with one click." The new release comes with LibreOffice 7.5.2, AbiWord 3.0.5, GIMP 2.10.34, Gnumeric 1.12.55, Firefox 111.0, Chromium 106.0.5249.91, Thunderbird 102.8.0, Audacious 4.3, VLC 3.0.18, SMPlayer 22.7.0, Mesa 22.2.3, Wine 8.3, Linux kernel 6.1.10, Apache 2.4.56, MariaDB 10.6.12, PHP 8.1.17, Perl 5.36.0, Python 3.10.8, Ruby 3.1.3. The release announcement has more details. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-42.0-64bit.iso (1,145MB), 4MServer-42.0-64bit.iso (1,217MB). |
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| 2022-12-04 |
Distribution Release: 4MLinux 41.0 |
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The independent 4MLinux distribution has published a new stable release. The new version, 4MLinux 41.0, offers a number of updates and new hardware support. A few new applications have been added to the distribution: "As always, the new major release has some new features. New applications available out of the box: FileZilla (FTP client), XPaint and GNU Paint (simple image-editing tools), nvme (command-line utility for managing NVM-Express partitions) as well as a collection of small SDL games. New applications available as downloadable extensions: BlueGriffon (HTML editor), The Legend of Edgar (platform game), ioquake3 (Quake III port), and BZFlag (tank battle game). The default video player in 4MLinux is now SMPlayer, and the default audio player is Audacious. Additionally, it is now possible to install 4MLinux on a Btrfs partition with the help of Syslinux, which acts as a boot manager." Additional information is presented in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-41.0-64bit.iso (1,195MB), 4MServer-41.0-64bit.iso (1,260MB), 4MLinux-41.0-core.iso (13MB). |
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| 2022-07-30 |
Distribution Release: 4MLinux 40.0 |
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4MLinux is a miniature Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and mystery (providing several small Linux games). The project's latest stable release introduces a number of changes to media support and adds encrypted volume utilities. "As always, the new major release has some new features. Legacy MPlayer with MEncoder are now available out of the box (HyperVC can be used as MEncoder’s GUI for transcoding). Many system-wide changes has been done to improve 3D support (both on real and virtual machines). QEMU (with its GUI called AQEMU) as well as TrueCrypt (encryption utility) are now also included. New games: GNOME Mahjongg (available out of the box) and Entombed! (available as a downloadable extension). And finally, a preliminary support for NVM Express interface has been added (currently it seems to work well in VirtualBox)." Additional details can be found in the release announcement. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-40.0-64bit.iso (1,076MB), 4MServer-40.0-64bit.iso (1,138MB), 4MLinux-40.0-core.iso (13MB). |
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| 2022-03-26 |
Distribution Release: 4MLinux 39.0 |
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4MLinux is a miniture Linux distribution focusing on four main capabilities. The project has published a new release, 4MLinux 39.0, which provides a series of updates to key packages along with new hardware support. There are also a few new features: "As always, the new major release has some new features. FSP (File Service Protocol) server is now included out of the box (gFTP can be used as its GUI client). Many system-wide changes have been done to improve font rendering. The 4MLinux installation script has been patched to provide better handling of JBD partitions. New applications available as downloadable extensions: Bluefish (advanced text editor), Ventoy (utility used for writing image files), TripleA (strategy game written in Java). And finally, youtube-dl has been replaced with yt-dlp for better handling of YouTube videos." Additional information can be found in the release announcement. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-39.0-64bit.iso (1,045MB), 4MServer-39.0-64bit.iso (1,107MB). |
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| 2021-11-30 |
Distribution Release: 4MLinux 38.0 |
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The 4MLinux distribution is a minimal operating system with four focuses (on gaming, server utilities, system maintenance, and multimedia). The project's latest release is 4MLinux 38.0 which introduces several package upgrades and a few new features. "As always, the new major release has some new features. The following applications are now available out of the box: Audacity (audio editor), GQmpeg (music player), GRUB2 (boot loader), Minitube (YouTube player), Musique (audio player), wxCam (webcam application), xmp (command-line mod player). Basic support for 32-bit applications is now also included. PHP in the 4MLinux Server comes with the improved image handling via an external GD Graphics Library. And finally, the 4MLinux GamePack is now available as a downloadable extension. It includes a big collection of classic Linux games." Additional details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-38.0-64bit.iso (1,020MB), 4MServer-38.0-64bit.iso (1,081MB). |
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