Poseidon Linux

Poseidon Linux is a Linux distribution, a complete operating system, originally based on Kurumin, now based on Ubuntu. It is developed and maintained by developers located at the Rio Grande Federal University[1] in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and the MARUM institute in Germany.

Poseidon Linux
The logo of Poseidon linux
The Desktop under Poseidon 4
Poseidon Linux 4 showing menu
DeveloperPoseidon Linux team
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateDormant
Source modelOpen source
Latest release8.0 / Nov 2016
Kernel typeMonolithic kernel
Default
user interface		GNOME
LicenseVarious
Official websitesites.google.com/site/poseidonlinux/Home

Naming

The name Poseidon was chosen after the God of the seas in Greek mythology, since oceanologists have been involved in the development of the system.

History

The 3.x family was pre-presented in 2008 at the 9th Free Software International Forum (FISL9.0). It was well received by the Linux community, including Jon "maddog" Hall of Linux International.

Poseidon 3.2 was officially released in May 2010 at the IV Brazilian Oceanography Congress, in Rio Grande, Brazil.

For version 4.0, the project changed the base distribution from Knoppix/Kurumin to Ubuntu. This was due to the wide acceptance of Poseidon outside the Portuguese-speaking scientific community, and because of the shut-down of the Kurumin project.[2] The Ubuntu-based releases allow for installation in Portuguese, Spanish, English, German, French, Greek, and other languages.

The development team stated that after Poseidon 5.0, the distribution would focus on bathymetry, seafloor mapping, and GIS software.[3] Many of the bundled CAD and scientific programs were removed, but may be separately available for download from compatible repositories.

The current version of Poseidon is 8.0, and is based on 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.[4]

Features

During its release history, the distribution has contained free software programs used in science and engineering, such as the Fortran programming language, Kile and Lyx for scientific writing, numerical modeling, 2D/3D/4D visualization, statistics, CAD, genetics, bio-informatics, and several tools that support GIS and mapping. Additionally, LibreOffice, web browsers, and multimedia packages are included.[5]

Releases
Timeline [6][7]
Version Date Comment
2.0 2005-10-25
3.1 2008-11-26
3.2 2010-05-11
4.0 2011-07-27 Based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
5.0 2010 Based on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS.
6.0
7.0 Based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
8.0 2016-11-23 Based on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS.
9.0 2017-09-29 Based on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS.

References
  1. "Página inicial - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG".
  2. "Kurumin".
  3. "Poseidon Linux - The Scientific GNU/Linux for Seafloor Mapping". sites.google.com. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
  4. "LTS - Ubuntu Wiki".
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 15, 2007. Retrieved July 30, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "DistroWatch.com: Poseidon Linux".
  7. "Poseidon Linux - The Scientific GNU/Linux for Seafloor Mapping". sites.google.com. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
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