Re: [ANN] Quantian: A Knoppix remastering for Scientific Computing
qOn Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 05:29:05PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2003, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> > [ If there is sufficient interest, this may morph into a Debian subproject.
> > Please contact me if you would want to be part of it. --edd ]
> >
> > Announcing the "Quantian Scientific Computing Environment"
> While I like any project which tries to connect Knoppix and Debian
> stronger I think the project you mentioned above is doing the second
> step. In several threads in the debian-knoppix mailing list especially
"Second step" ? I don't get it? What second step?
> at
>
> http://mailman.linuxtag.org/pipermail/debian-knoppix/2003-March/thread.html
>
> I tried to explain how this connection between Debian and Knoppix
> can be done. I hope we can discuss this at LinuxTag and Debconf 3 / Oslo.
Unfortunately, I cannot attend either.
> If we will be able to bootstrap a Knoppix CD from a Debian mirror all
> other Knoppix derivaties will be as easily to acheave as any Debian
> package can be installed.
That is a fine goal for the medium to long term. Quantian is about
addressing a current niche, and demand, right now. Both goals are
complements and do not stand in each others way.
Cheers, Dirk
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