Poseidon Linux
Encyclopedia
Poseidon Linux is full GNU/Linux distribution, a complete operating system
, originally based on Kurumin, now based on Ubuntu
. It is developed and maintained by a team of young scientists from the Rio Grande Federal University Foundation
in Rio Grande do Sul
, Brazil, and the MARUM institute, in Germany.
The name ("Poseidon
" was the regent of the sea in Greek mythology
) derives from the large number of oceanologists involved in the development of the system.
It contains many free software
programs used by students, professors, technicians and scientists, such as the Fortran
programming language, Kile
and Lyx
for scientific writing, numerical modeling, 2D/3D/4D visualization, statistics, CAD, Genetics, Bio-Informatics and several tools that support GIS and map
ping... along with day-by-day common utilities like LibreOffice
(with many spell-checkers), internet surfing, multimedia, etc. (even some games).
Due to its wide acceptance also outside the Portuguese-speaking scientific community and to the eventual shut down of the Kurumin project, the Poseidon project has changed the base distribution to Ubuntu, to allow the installation in Portuguese
, Spanish, English, German, French, Greek
and more languages.
The core of Poseidon is always the Debian
family due to the higher stability and great amount of software available into the repository sites. Also, users of any other Debian or Ubuntu derivative distribution would find no trouble to use Poseidon. Many of the supporting material and tutorials apply fully to it.
The current running version is 4.0, and it is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS 32 bits, and soon 64 bits, since the goal of Poseidon is not to deliver one new distro after another, but to deliver a solid, usable and trustful distro for professional, educational, and home computers, that will be updated when the special packages and the base system requires so.
The 3.x family was pre-presented at the 9th Free Software International Forum (2008) – FISL9.0., and received compliments from many users, free-software enthusiasts, the GNU/Linux community and even from Jon "maddog" Hall, from Linux International
.
Version 3.2 (previous) was officially released in the IV Brazilian Oceanography Congress, that took place in Rio Grande, Brazil, in May 2010.
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
, originally based on Kurumin, now based on Ubuntu
Ubuntu (operating system)
Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu...
. It is developed and maintained by a team of young scientists from the Rio Grande Federal University Foundation
Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande is a public Brazilian university funded by the Brazilian federal government, located in the city of Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil....
in Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil, and the state with the fifth highest Human Development Index in the country. In this state is located the southernmost city in the country, Chuí, on the border with Uruguay. In the region of Bento Gonçalves and Caxias do Sul, the largest wine...
, Brazil, and the MARUM institute, in Germany.
The name ("Poseidon
Poseidon
Poseidon was the god of the sea, and, as "Earth-Shaker," of the earthquakes in Greek mythology. The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon...
" was the regent of the sea in Greek mythology
Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
) derives from the large number of oceanologists involved in the development of the system.
It contains many free software
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
programs used by students, professors, technicians and scientists, such as the Fortran
Fortran
Fortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing...
programming language, Kile
Kile
Kile is a TeX/LaTeX editor to edit TeX/LaTeX source code. It runs on Unix-like systems including Mac OS X and Linux with the Qt libraries installed.- Name :...
and Lyx
LyX
LyX is a document processor following the self-coined "what you see is what you mean" paradigm , as opposed to the WYSIWYG ideas used by word processors...
for scientific writing, numerical modeling, 2D/3D/4D visualization, statistics, CAD, Genetics, Bio-Informatics and several tools that support GIS and map
Map
A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes....
ping... along with day-by-day common utilities like LibreOffice
LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite developed by The Document Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org. It is largely compatible with other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, and available on a variety of platforms...
(with many spell-checkers), internet surfing, multimedia, etc. (even some games).
Due to its wide acceptance also outside the Portuguese-speaking scientific community and to the eventual shut down of the Kurumin project, the Poseidon project has changed the base distribution to Ubuntu, to allow the installation in Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
, Spanish, English, German, French, Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
and more languages.
The core of Poseidon is always the Debian
Debian
Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License along with other free software licenses. Debian GNU/Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential...
family due to the higher stability and great amount of software available into the repository sites. Also, users of any other Debian or Ubuntu derivative distribution would find no trouble to use Poseidon. Many of the supporting material and tutorials apply fully to it.
The current running version is 4.0, and it is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS 32 bits, and soon 64 bits, since the goal of Poseidon is not to deliver one new distro after another, but to deliver a solid, usable and trustful distro for professional, educational, and home computers, that will be updated when the special packages and the base system requires so.
The 3.x family was pre-presented at the 9th Free Software International Forum (2008) – FISL9.0., and received compliments from many users, free-software enthusiasts, the GNU/Linux community and even from Jon "maddog" Hall, from Linux International
Linux International
Linux International, also known simply as LI, is a worldwide, non-profit association of groups, corporations and others that work towards the promotion of growth of Linux and FOSS. It is headed by Jon "maddog" Hall....
.
Version 3.2 (previous) was officially released in the IV Brazilian Oceanography Congress, that took place in Rio Grande, Brazil, in May 2010.