A new release 0.5.9.4 was uploaded to the servers at the
University of
Washington, at
Debian's
Alioth site and at
Greg Warnes'
machine at Yale. This release may become the final 0.5.9.* release and
get relabelled 0.6; work should soon commence on a Quantian based on the new
Knoppix 3.6.
This is a maintenance and bug-fix release over 0.5.9.3, yet still contains a
rather large number of changes:
- another 50 more GNU R packages
from
CRAN and
BioConductor
providing unparalled depth for statistical computing with now about 440
R packages;
- added Gnumeric and LyX back in;
- added pcb to complement GNU geda;
- added the Alliance VHDL, a complete set of free CAD tools and portable
libraries for VLSI design which includes a VHDL compiler and simulator, logic
synthesis tools, and automatic place and route tools, see
the Alliance website
(suggested by 'Joe'; Debian package generated from rpm by alien(1))
- added a slew of astronomy-related packages suggested by Gopal
Narayanan: setiathome, tkseti,
xplanet, xplanet-images, saoimage, gpsim, gnucap,
oregano, icom, xcircuit, vipec, xsmc-calc, transcalc
- added two more data visualization packages: xd3d
suggested and packaged by Marco, and
QtiPlot also
suggested by Marco;
- and made a few production fixes suggested by Marco: prepare md5sums to enable
'checkcd' option; suppress 'modules.conf newer' message by touch(1)'ing it;
add new bootsplash screen; use Marco's corrected minirt24.gz and minirt36.gz boot
images with ext3 patch and scsi module aic79xx.
Slightly more informations are in the Quantian
changelog, and general info is as always at the Quantian pages.
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