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| | LWN: New Quantian release 0.6.9.3 available |
 | | Several new packages (Rpad, clustalw, seaview, iraf) were installed, a number of packages (Octave 2.1.64, Scilab 3.0 among them) were updated, and the CRAN packages were updated as of December 11. |
 | | Quantian is a remastering of Knoppix, the self-configuring and directly bootable cdrom/dvd that turns any pc or laptop into a full-featured Linux workstation, and clusterKnoppix, which adds support for openMosix-based cluster computing. |
 | | However, Quantian differs from (cluster)Knoppix by adding a very large set of programs of interest to applied or theoretical workers in quantitative or data-driven fields. |
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