CAELinux 2009

Hi everybody,

I have managed to find some time to work on the project recently, so the development of CAELinux 2009 is now progressing very quickly.
The distro itself is now at 90% completion, but I need to work on the small details now (auto-configuration scripts, menus, user profiles, helper tools, documentation...).
If everything works well for the "final" touch, the new release should be ready within two weeks (~June 10).

This radically new release is based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64bit, and contains:
- Salome-Meca 2009.1 32bit + Code-Aster 9.4 64bit (compiled from source, multi-threading support)
- Code-Saturne 1.4 with my little CFD study wizard (compiled from source, MPI support)
- Elmer: latest release with the new ElmerGUI (compiled from source, 64bit)
- latest release of Gerris compiled from source, 64 bit, MPI support
- latest release of CalculiX (ccx,cgx) also compiled from source in 64bit, with SPOOLES & ARPACK solvers
- latest versions of GMSH, netgen and tetgen
- QCAD, R + RKward, Octave + qtOctave + Octave-Forge, wxMaxima

All this will probably result in a large ISO file of ~ 3Gb.

As it is based on a very popular Ubuntu version, you will find a lot of tips, help & updates for this system. Using netbootin, you will even be able to take it with you on a USB stick !!

Stay tuned for further news.

Joël Cugnoni
aka "admin"

Hello Joël

Counting down. Thank you for all the work already done and still doing.

** kind regards - kees

<br /><br />Post edited by: Kees Wouters, at: 2009/05/27 00:46

Hoi Alexey

Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04), is the LTS (long term support) version of Ubuntu. It is likely to be a bit more stable than other versions and will be supported for a much longer time.
However, the Salome platform runs quite well on 9.04 (jaunty jackalope) on my system.

** kind regards - kees<br /><br />Post edited by: Kees Wouters, at: 2009/05/28 15:51