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Hi,

I would like to see a debian based caelinux more, too

As soon, as you have it running using ClusterKnoppix, it would be a good idea to get closer to ubuntu's release cycle. As I, and probably some more, need pretty new software, it is much easier to adjust the packages to ubuntu's 'newest stable' release than the 'unstable' Debian one. I know 'Debian unstable' is not breaking everythin,but it could when you run your updates every week... Hope, you understand what I want to say.

Greetings!
Fabian

Hello,

I am sorry, maybe my answer will disappoint you a bit, but we don't intend to create an always \"up-to-date\" distro with all the cool&nice stuff that users may find usefull: there are a lot of distro focussed on that in general and it takes really a large amount of time/resources to always update/test/publish things for very little added value at the end.

What we intend to do is to develop a coherent Finite Element / CAE platform with (mostly) stable GPL softwares & enough documentation / tutorials to learn how to use all these tools in a comprehensive / coherent way for real world analysis (audience = mechanical, civil etc.. engineers and researchers).

To put it short: we would like to create an open-source alternative to all these commercial FE solutions like Ansys, Nastran, Abaqus, ... and to make it (more or less) easy to use in real industrial simulation problems.

The distro will evolve, but mainly when the stable software versions will change and as we have now very limited resources, we will concentrate on the topics with the most added value: know-how is the key for real applications!!

Sorry, I know that a lot of people would like to see something that would be more or less a \"Knoppix\"/\"Ubuntu\" style distribution, but the facts are that we cannot afford to do that for the moment...

Regards,

Joël Cugnoni

PS: don't forget that PcLinuxOs (and CAELinux) is REALLY simple to update/maintain when installed to HDD (synaptics...) & that it is also amazingly simple to remaster from a working HDD install (one command: mklivecd MyImage.iso), so it would not take you a lot of time and efforts to customize it for your specific needs. That's mainly the reason for using PcLinuxOs in CAELinux: good hardware detection / simple remastering / simple updates.