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After several months of development, the update of the third version of CAELinux is ready for release with many enhancements in the system and packaged softwares. Features - CAELinux is a LiveDVD Linux distribution based on PcLinuxOs .93 (linux kernel 2.6.17): a user-friendly live Linux distribution, with enhanced hardware detection and a very simple & efficient hard disk installer.
- Contains the following CAE softwares:
- Pre-post processors, CAD: Salome v3.2.2, GMSH 2, Paraview, XMGrace, CGX, QCad, gCad3D, GraphiteOne, Blender, BRL-CAD
- FE solvers: Code_Aster v9.0, Elmer 4.0, Tochnog, Calculix 1.6, Impact 0.72, getDP
- CFD: OpenFOAM v1.2, OpenFlower, Gerris flow solver (updated)
- Multibody dyn. : MBDyn, EasyAnim
- Mathematics: GNU Octave, Scilab, XMaxima, SciPy
- Is provided with tutorials, videos & examples to start learning how to use the included open-source softwares for realistic FE simulation
- This new release includes ready-to-install packages for SMP/4Gb kernels and 3D accelerated video drivers for ATI & NVidia cards.
- Available in two versions:
- a LiveDVD ISO image to boot or install the preconfigured Linux environment with optimum performance
- a VMWare virtual machine to use CAELinux environment directly from your current OS (Windows or Linux OS)
LiveDVD version Requirements This LiveDVD distribution is based on a compressed file system on the DVD and requires that the system decompresses all the necessary softwares into RAM in order to run. In LiveDVD mode, a minimum of 512Mb is required to use this distribution for simple FE analysis. But you can create a Linux swap partition on one hard disk to help or choose the option to install the distribution to hard disk for optimal performance. At the moment most of the classical chipsets for Intel (P3, P4, Celeron, Pentium M) and AMD (Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon 64, Sempron) platforms are supported with some exceptions especially concerning external USB modems, specific laptop devices (some wireless network cards) and very specific hardware like Raid controllers. For more help on hardware support / detection / troubleshooting, you should refer to PCLinuxOS forums : http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/ Instructions - First, download the files from the link below and extract the content of the multipart RAR archive with a recent version of WinRAR (or a RAR 3.x compliant archive manager). You will then have an ISO DVD image file. (you can check the md5sum of your downloaded image to check if it is not corrupt).
- Burn the ISO image on a DVD+/-R/RW with your favorite DVD burner software. Be sure to select the "Burn Image" option in your DVD burning software. If unsure, read the help of your DVD burning software.
- Restart your PC, insert the LiveDVD and verify that your BIOS is configured to boot from CD/DVD drive.
- Boot from the LiveDVD: you will see a prompt with some instructions. Usually you don't need to specify anything here but if you have some problems during the boot process, some alternative options can be selected here. For the moment, just press "Enter".
- When the boot process is finished, you will need to login with the following account:
login=root, password=root
- When the KDE desktop is finally loaded, you can start your work as if you were running from an hard disk. Note that all the readable partitions of your HDD will be allready accessible (read-only for NTFS, read-write for FAT/ext2-3) and your USB key or external HDD will be recognized when you plugin it in (read-write access).
- Now you can start your first tutorial on FE modelling with Salomé and Code_Aster: just click the "CAELinux Introduction" link on the desktop and open "GettingStarted.html" and follow the first tutorial on the FE analysis of a 2-stroke engine piston (from a STEP CAD geometry).
VMWare version Requirements The VMWare version of CAELinux Beta 3b requires a powerfull computer to run smoothly: at least a Pentium 4 1.5Ghz with 768Mb of RAM and 15Gb of free space on a FAT32, NTFS or EXT2/3 partition. To run the Virtual Machine, you will absolutely need the free VMWare Player or VMWare Workstation (>=5.0) and a recent version of WinRAR (3.x) to decompress the package.
Instructions - First, download the RAR archive from the link below.
- Decompress the archive (use for example WinRAR) in a partition with at least 15Gb of free space. This will create a directory named VM.
- If you don't have VMWare Workstation v5.0 or higher, download and install the free VMWare player.
- Start VMWare Workstation or VMWare Player and open CAELinux VMWare machine (.vmx file) in your VM directory.
Documentation For the moment, a first draft documentation is available in the GettingStart.html file included in the distribution. Several tutorials, videos and examples are included on the distribution and also downloadable here Packages Both CAELinux Beta 3b packages are available to download via BitTorrent or HTTP LiveDVD (ISO image): Size: 2.13 Gb (2'295'562'240 bytes) MD5Sum: 46ba19798e4006dad25687a979339f73 VMWare virtual machine (RAR archive): Size: 2.75 Gb
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