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Science oriented LiveCD

• Quantian by DirkEddelbuettel

• Blue Obelisk Live CD by Egon Willighagen

• GNOME Science CD (early state)

Other science distributions

• Bio-Linux Standard and cutting edge ?BioInformatics software tools on (as of version 4.0) a Debian GNU/Linux base.

• Scientific Linux

• In Ubuntu: Ubuntu Science, and MOTU Science Team.

  • Comparison of Ubuntu and Debian science package versions http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/multidistrotools/science.html

• Scubuntu aims to produce an ubuntu based distribution for scientists - and has a list of scientific software: http://scubuntu.meraka.org.za/wiki/Scientific_Software

• Scibuntu another ubuntu based science distribution.

Unofficial Debian repositories with science software

• http://Mentors.debian.net repository

• Yaroslav Halchenko repository

• DanielLeidert repository (read this)

• Carlo Segre repository

• Yorick repository; etch-backports, unstable; i386, ppc, amd64

• Balbir Thomas

• CERN High energy physics /CERN related.

• Bio-Linux WARNING Read This Warning

Other free software project sites

Around R

• http://www.r-project.org/

• http://cran.r-project.org/

• http://www.bioconductor.org/

• Some tutorials and examples (link provided by Andre Lehovich)

Around Python

• From IDL to Python (link provided by JD Rogers)

• Linuxgazette article

Physics Centric

• DebianScience/Geant4 a toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter. (unofficial packages exist)

Scientific software lists

• FreeScience

• http://www.opennovation.org/ Categorised list of software useful for engineering.

• http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Comp_chem_linkdump Computational chemistry software - some of it free.

Mailing lists devoted to open source scientific software

• http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/open-science Mailing list devoted to open source science.