Poseidon Linux
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Poseidon Linux is a Linux distribution based on Kurumin Linux, developed and maintained by a team of scientists in the Rio Grande do Sul University Foundation (Portuguese: Fundação Universidade do Rio Grande) in Brazil.
The name (Poseidon was the Lord of the Seas) derives from the large number of oceanologists involved in the development of the system.
It contains many free software programs used by scientists, such as the Fortran programming language, Kile and Lyx for scientific writing, numerical modelling, 2D/3D/4D visualisation, statistics, and several tools that support GIS and mapping.
Due to its wide acceptance in the Portuguese-speaking scientific community, a project has been started to provide translations into Spanish and English.
As of February 2006, the current version is 2.0.
The establishment of the Poseidon Linux foundation (Portuguese: ONG Poseidon Linux) has been [announced], to steer further development of the distribution.
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