Specialized Knoppixes for Fun and Profit

Posted by michael on Saturday February 14, 2004 @06:13AM from the can't-eat-just-one dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The University of Puerto Rico High Performance Computing facility (HPCf) and the Puerto Rico Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN-PR) are pleased to announce the release of bioknoppix. bioknoppix is a live CD linux, based on KNOPPIX, and specialized to include tools for bioinformatics. bioknoppix does not need to be installed on your computer, making it a perfect tool for workshops and demos. Some of the software included in the 0.3 release: EMBOSS 2.8.0, jemboss, artemis, clustal, Cn3D, ImageJ, BioPython, Rasmol, Bioperl, Bioconductor. For more information please see the bioknoppix home page." Reader Tussinator wrote in about a new release of ClusterKnoppix.

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uhm by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-14 06:23 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I'm guessing that about 5 people on Slashdot have enough intellect to actually use these packages for something useful. Slashdot is no longer filled with academics and cognoscenti; it's mostly for gamers and casual Linux users. My point isn't that this story shouldn't be posted, it's just that no one here will appreciate this distro, and all that it can do.