Free materials science engineering software for linux

Kaboot Linux Operating system aims to provide an operating system which you can take anywhere and has all your favourite programs on.

Kaboot operating system is avaliable as a Live CD or Live USB you can take with you anywhere.

A number of different versions are avaliable, two optimised for size or speed, one for functionality, and one science based.

All containing a host of useful programs able to boot virtually any computer (meeting the minimum requirements) from CD and

USB.Kaboot is still in active development and if you find a bug or fix, you can let me know in the forums.

Kaboot Science - contains a number of Scientific programs already setup and ready to go, with the purpose of introducing those unconvinced by the power of open source programs.

Packge List:

net-dialup/rp-pppoe
x11-misc/adesklets
media-gfx/scrot
sys-apps/coldplug
x11-misc/pypanel
sys-apps/slocate
sys-kernel/linux-headers
app-office/gnumeric
sys-devel/gettext
media-gfx/feh
sci-calculators/galculator
x11-themes/commonbox-styles
x11-themes/openbox-themes
app-admin/syslog-ng
sci-chemistry/easychem
app-admin/testdisk
sys-process/vixie-cron
x11-misc/obconf
sys-boot/grub
perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker
x11-misc/bbrb
x11-misc/gdeskcal
net-ftp/gftp
sci-astronomy/predict
sci-astronomy/stellarium
x11-wm/openbox
x11-base/xorg-x11
net-misc/dhcpcd
app-admin/torsmo
media-gfx/gnuplot
sci-mathematics/octave
sys-libs/glibc
sci-libs/gsl
www-client/mozilla-firefox
app-editors/nano
app-arch/gzip
sys-apps/pcmcia-cs
net-im/gaim
net-dialup/mingetty
sys-apps/hotplug
app-editors/cute
sci-chemistry/ghemical
x11-terms/aterm
app-office/abiword
sci-calculators/qalculate-units

Software Engineering Environment (SEE) is frame for manufacturing information. It is implemented in sevlet and xml, and is used by the web-browser.
Software Engineering Environment (SEE) attempts to provide the information manufacturing platform for software development.
SEE is a free project, that is the author will provide all of its source code at the same time.
It runs in any servlet environment (The author merely verified in the Win and Linux environment), not using any special technique and needs no auxiliary program.
All of its data are saved in XML files, and need not database. (The future release will support the option of saving data, so that the user can select some free database, such as mysql, or commercial database to improve SEE speed.)
This means that the user can run SEE without any money. (Tomcat is a free servlet environment.)
User uses all SEE functions with the web-browser. So information sharing is very convenient.
SEE supports Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and English now.( It will support any language if someone will translate.) User can switch to interfaces in different language at any time when SEE is running. And user can add language translations which will work at once.
The main body of SEE is a frame for information manufacturing. All information included in it can be costumed dynamically and all changes will get into effect immediately. This means that the user can modify or add her/his own information structure as will at any time.
SEE provides various predefined selections for information attributes, which correspond various predefined information manufacturing patterns. The user can focus on the information description when costuming information definition, and the system will implement the functions automatically. This is the core of SEE. Most functions of SEE are in this model.
The default information definition of SEE is the result that the author understands what is the Software Engineering.
Although the target of SEE is helping for software development, actually, user can use it to design any type information, such as book registering, personnel lists, and financial reports etc.
The speed of SEE is not bad. Reading and writing 20000 records needs no more than 1 second. At present, the sorting speed is 9 seconds for 5000 records. (The testing platform is 1.8G CPU and 256M memory)
Enhancements:
- The data interface to prepare supporting databases.
- The databases are not supported in this release.
- A new interface style "Beautiful Flowers".
- These flowers are photoed in parks in this year by the author.
- The author likes the honeybee who holds a flower in its mouth very much. It is the first cartoon figure by the author. It will appear when you save wrong data. :)
- The function of "Personal Message".
- User can only query the messages sent by and sent to herself/himself. And user can only remove the messages sent to herself/himself.
- After a user read a message sent to her/him, SEE will mark it as "have_read" automatically.
- The number of new arrived messages will be shown in the interface.
- The data privileges management
- When user "Remove All" or "Modify All", the "base conditions" will be checked at first. That is user can only do what she/he can do.
- The Password fields values can not be visited, except when the user, who owns the "Import" privilege to current data, exports the data.
- All the data structures of ACL tables are changed! Their keywords become the "Title". This will permit user define better ACL.
- And the "condition" in the ACL tables are implemented completely. Now any "SEE conditions" is valid.
- Snapshot for image file
- When list the data, a snapshot will be shown for the image files type, which may end with jpg/jpeg/gif/png.
- Data sorting concerned with langauges.
- Thus when sorting data in Chinese, the result is Chinese result.
- General users can not visit the "User" table! Then they can not fill in many data!
- This is a fatal bug! This means all former releases can not be used actually!
- Now all ACL tables are redesigned.
- When a new user is added without password, SEE will add some password itself! Then this new user can never login!
- This is another fatal bug!
- In the last English release, which is 0.06, the ACL data are in Chinese!
- So the English users can not use SEE at all~~
- This is still a fatal bug!
- The "Risk Items" in the table "Deviation Handling" is wrong defined.
- This will cause an error information when user clicks the "Select" button.
- The values of Password fields can be visited when query or export.
- Although the values are meaningless encoded codes, they are still security thread.
- When some quota marks in the key values, pages will report errors and the function buttons, such as Modify and Remove, can not act!
- This is because quota is also an element of web page.
- When the interface language changes, the language in audit records changes too!
- This is not permitted. Language of all data is determined when SEE is installed and can not change with interface!

Quizmaster project is a program designed to allow the creation of short, fun quizzes.

Quizmaster is a type-oriented quiz program that gives multiple-choice questions along the axes you provide and selects the results that most closely match your visitors responses (think SelectSmart or the Myers-Briggs test).

It comes with amusing quizzes already installed.

Quizmaster is a search engine meant to provide high-usability and powerful access to documents being searched. It does not search the web, but local files provided to it. It is meant to help the user find materials quickly.

Madagascar (formerly known as RSF) is an open-source software package for geophysical data processing and reproducible numerical experiments.
- a convenient and powerful environment
- a convenient technology transfer tool
for researchers working with digital image and data processing. The technology developed using the Madagascar project management system is transferred in the form of recorded processing histories, which become "computational recipes" to be verified, exchanged, and modified by users of the system.
Main features:
- Madagascar is a new package. It started in 2003 and was developed entirely from scratch. Being a new package, it follows modern software engineering practices such as module encapsulation and test-driven development. A rapid development of a project of this scope (more than 300 main programs and more than 3000 tests) would not be possible without standing on the shoulders of giants and learning from the 30 years of previous experience in open packages such as SEPlib and Seismic Unix. We have borrowed and reimplemented functionality and ideas from these packages.
- Madagascar is a test-driven package. Test-driven development is not only an agile software programming practice but also a way of bringing scientific foundation to geophysical research that involves numerical experiments. Bringing reproducibility and peer review, the backbone of any real science, to the field of computational geophysics is the main motivation for RSF development. The package consists of two levels: low-level main programs (typically developed in the C programming language and working as data filters) and high-level processing flows (described with the help of the Python programming language) that combine main programs and completely document data processing histories for testing and reproducibility. Experience shows that high-level programming is easily mastered even by beginning students that have no previous programming experience.
- Madagascar is an open-source package. It is distributed under the standard GPL open-source license, which places no restriction on the usage and modification of the code. Access to modifying the source repository is not controlled by one organization but shared equally among different developers. This enables an open collaboration among different groups spread all over the world, in the true spirit of the open source movement.
- Magadascar uses a simple, flexible, and universal data format that can handle very large datasets but is not tied specifically to seismic data or data of any other particular kind. This "regularly sampled" format is borrowed from the traditional SEPlib and is also related to the DDS format developed by Amoco and BP. A universal data format allows us to share general-purpose data processing tools with scientists from other disciplines such as petroleum engineers working on large-scale reservoir simulations.