Quantian

Announcing Quantian release 0.4.9.3 
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I   What is it?

    Quantian is a remastering of Knoppix, the self-configuring and directly
    bootable cdrom that turns any pc or laptop into a full-featured Linux
    workstation. Recent versions of Quantian are based on clusterKnoppix 
    and add support for openMosix. However, Quantian differs from
    (cluster)Knoppix by adding a large set of programs of interest to applied
    or theoretical workers in quantitative or data-driven fields. 

    See http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html for more details.
    

II  What is new?

    o New Debian packages (relativ to 0.4.9.2)

      -  The grass GIS is back in version 5.0.3 from unstable

      -  Lots of new Python packages: 
	 python-tk, python-gnuplot, python-stats, python2.3-egenix-mxdatetime,
         python2.3-egenix-mxtools, python2.3-mysqldb, python2.3-pyscopg,
	 python2.3-pythoncard, python2.3-rpy, python2.3-sqlite

      -  Lots of new R / CRAN packages 
	 r-cran-abind, r-cran-effects, r-cran-its, r-cran-mapdata,
         r-cran-mapproj, r-cran-maps

      -  freefew and plotmtv

      -  beancounter, libdbd-pg-perl, llibdbd-sqlite-perl, sqlite

    o Several documentation packages had to be removed to clear space

    o Quantitative packages updated throughout (from unstable)

    o No new ClusterKnoppix or Knoppix changes: this release is still 
      based on kernel 2.4.22 from the November releases of Knoppix and
      clusterKnoppix -- however, an updated version based on kernel 2.4.24
      should come out shortly

    See http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/changelog.html for more details.


III Where do I get it?

    Downloads are available from the two main hosts both of which also
    provide rsync:

    o U of Washington:  
      - http://www.analytics.washington.edu/downloads/quantian
      - rsync://www.analytics.washington.edu::quantian

    o U of Wisconsin/Madison:  
      - http://franz.stat.wisc.edu/~edd/quantian
      - rsync://rsync.r-project.org::quantian

    o European mirror, bittorrent site and cdrom vendors will hopefully
      catch up over the next few days. See 

	    http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html
 
      for download info.


IV  Known Bugs

    o Packages
      
      I seem to have forgotten the r-cran-tseries package


V   Other items

    o A mailing list should be available soon, stay tuned!

    o Feedback / poll on package additions or removal

      As always, I welcome comments and suggestions about programs to be
      added or removed. Existing Debian packages get pushed to the front of
      the line.

Best regards,  Dirk

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The relationship between the computed price and reality is as yet unknown.  
                                             -- From the pac(8) manual page