CAELinux 2013: finally released!!

Hello to everybody,

finally CAELinux 2013 has been finalized and released today!

here is just a copy of it's annoucement for your information:

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Although seriously delayed, we are pleased to announce our new release CAELinux 2013

CAELinux 2013 is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit distribution and contains a unique suite of open source simulation tools for FEA, CFD or multiphysics simulation but also a large panel of other engineering software for CAD-CAM & 3D printing, electronics, mathematics & programming . CAELinux 2013 represents a complete rebuild of the distribution with up-to-date software for a better support of modern hardware and a significantly enhanced ease of use, and we hope that you will enjoy it.

This release is available in the form of an liveDVD ISO image for AMD/Intel 64 bit CPUs that can be burned on a DVD or installed on a USB key for "mobile" use and testing and then installed on hard-disk for best performance. A virtual machine image for use on Amazon EC2 (standard and cluster instances) is also available.

The features / programs included in CAELinux 2013 distribution are the following:

• - LiveDVD distribution based on Xubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit with a customized XFCE desktop
• - Runs directly from the DVD or from USB key without any installation
• - Optional installation to hard disk with the simple Ubuntu installer
• - Offers a complete platform for open source engineering development: Computer Aided Design & Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) and simulation (CAE, FEA / CFD), electronics design, scientific computing, programming and mathematical modelling
• - CAD / CAM : Salome, Freecad and OpenSCAD (3D parametric CAD), LibreCad, SagCad (2D CAD), PyCAM, GCAM, dxf2gcode, OpenSCAM (CAM g-code generators & simulation), CURA (3D printing)
• - CAE, FEA, CFD & multiphysics simulation: Salome_Meca 2013.1, Code-Aster 11.3, Code-Saturne 3.0, OpenFOAM 2.1.1, Elmer 6.2, Calculix 2.6, Impact FEM, MBDyn (all parallel codes)
• - Pre/post processing packages: Paraview 3.10.2, Discretizer, EnGrid 1.4, Helyx-OS, Elmer GUI, Netgen, Tetgen, CGX, GMSH v2.5, Salome v.6., Meshlab
• - Electronic design and prototyping: GEDA suite, KiCad, Fritzing, Arduino, dxf2gcode / cadpy for PCB isolation milling.
• - Offers many scientific & development tools like GNU Octave (+ QtOctave GUI ), R & Rkward, Scilab, wxMaxima, Scipy & Spyder IDE, Qt Creator, gcc, gfortran, g++, python, perl, tcl/tk, ruby compilers,
• - Scientific writing and office tools: Latex , Texmaker , Lyx , LibreOffice, Gimp, Inkscape, Jabref

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I hope that you will appreciate it !
And sorry again for the long wait.

Congratulations on finishing it - I think fairly few of us appreciate how much work it really is to create a distribution

now... where are all the custom scripts so I can use them on OpenSUSE ?

/C

Hi Claws,

Thank you as well for the help on the forums!

You are right, the next step is now to cleanup my packaging "mess" and publish the source and scripts... Stay tuned for the updates.

However I have a very busy agenda until mid April so it may not come very soon.

Cheers

Joel

Hello,
Could you be more specific? How have you tested it and what fails exactly?
It would really help me to fix this .
Joel