CaeLinux 2009 64bits...?

Hi forum

When is Caelinux 2009 amd64 DVD scheduled to be released...?
I like the 2008 release but it doesn't yet support large memory models... 32 bits thing..

Is it to be released soon...?

Thanks in advance

Alex

Hi Joel

Nice work man, keep it up Hope it will be released soon...

If the Base distro is Ubuntu 8.04 64bits LTS this means that all the repos with libraries and Debian/ubuntu applications will be accessible at a simple apt-get... ? AWESOME

I have been playin around with CentOS 5.3 64bits (... adt ist purported mighty stability ) and yum update is sloooow like a turtle... and the available packages are much less...

What would you advise as a base OS for heavy load simulation in engineering? FreeBSD, Debian or Ubuntu...?

So far I have managed to install some proprietary packages ( which i still need )in Ubuntu 8.10 amd 64 ( I want to learn to use Open Source FEA (Aster, Syrthes, Canculix ) and CFD ( OpenFOAM ( already am a "power user" of FOAM ) and Saturne ) and math fast prototyping applications like Scilab, Maxima, GetDP and QTOctave as proficiently that I use Abaqus, Ansys, Matlab and Fluent...

But man, what i miss most is some tutorials...

I have taken note of the ISBN of the book about Salome and Aster... hope this has lots of examples and howtos...

I know those packages are very capable, and have impressive customization capabilities...( one can define its own elements, with its own shape functions, in ASTER, or define a new model of Heat conduction in Code Syrthes ( I have defined a relativistic heat conduction model in OpenFOAM, that accounts for "electronic Heat conduction" as well as "phononic heat conduction", Cattaneo Model )...

Abaqus or Ansys do not allow me this freedom...

This iis what I like about OSS for engineers... one solves the problem one defines... not the problem that the Software Editor defined....

This is the difference between a Phisicist's solution and a ( bad ) Engineer's solution... I am an engineer MSc though...

I will try to install today Salome 3.2.6 in Ubuntu 8.10 amd 64 from sources ( I have 8 gb of Ram, doesn't make much sense using binaries compiled for 32 bits ... most memory would be as "nonexistent"...)

Hope you will manage to give OS community one more outstanding CAELinux distro the soonest possible... NICE WORK... :-D

Will it be GNOME....?? ( wishful thinking.... :-D )

Best regards

Alex

Hi Joel

Just one bit "tiny" favor CaeLinux Developers Team could make to the OSS ppl that have Laptops with Broadcom Wireless cards...

Mine is a BCM4312... the firmware has finally been released by broadcom... Ubuntu 8.10 amd64 ( the one I use in my lappy ) has support for this card... could you ( Or someone in the development team ) make CAELinux 2009 support BroadCom BCM43xx cards...?

plizzz...?

Thanks in advance.

About packaging *.debs for future CAELinux releases, I don´t know how this is done, the only experience I have in packaging applcations is with rpms, for Fedoras RHs CentoS and SL...

I think that the mechanism of packaging a *.deb to be installed from source is a bit different from *.rpm based...

( I am a newbie in Debian/Ubuntu world... )

Alex

Dear Admin,
thank you for your job on caelinux until now.
I have a 64bit machine working now (Salome+Code-Aster) but Caelinux is a step ahead, with its Intel compiled software and the MP support!
I'm only a little bit concerned about the choose to use Ubuntu, I had bad experiences in the past.

Let's know if you need help on something, I'm not able to program but I can make some preliminary tests.

Regards.