Changelog
Poseidon Linux 9.0 series (current version)
Based on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Several versions based on MB-System 5.5.xxxx and GMT 5.4.2 releases
Previous Versions:
Poseidon Linux 8.0 series
Based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Several versions based on MB-System 5.5.xxxx and GMT 5.2.1 releases
Poseidon Linux 7.0 series
Based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Several versions based on MB-System 5.5.xxxx and GMT 5.2.1 releases
Poseidon Linux 6.0 series
Based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Several versions based on MB-System/GMT releases
Poseidon Linux 5.0 series
Based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Several versions based on MB-System/GMT releases
New direction and only focused on Bathymetry and Seafloor Mapping
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Poseidon Linux 4.0
Based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, with Kernel 2.6.32, and Gnome 2.30.2
updated packages: Firefox 5.0, MB-System 5.2.1880, QGIS 1.7, GRASS 6.4.1, R 2.13.1... and a lot more!
new additions: LibreOffice 3.3.2, Nevernote, Dropbox, RSSOwl, Eclipse
removed packages: Oracle's OpenOffice
Poseidon Linux 3.2:
Based on Ubuntu 9.10, with Linux Kernel 2.6.31, Gnome 2.28.1
updated packages: Firefox 3.6, MB System 5.1.3beta1851, QGIS 1.4, GRASS 6.4 RC5... basically everything!
new additions: R modules (bioconductor, gam, spgrass6 and geoR);
Poseidon Linux 3.1:
based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 and with security updates until 17-10-2008;
for the very first time Poseidon Linux in two versions for 32 and 64 bits computers.
updated packages: Firefox 3.0.3, Wine 1.0, GRASS 6.3, R 2.7.2, Spring 5.0 in English, MB System 5.1.1 beta 23;
new additions: VirtulBox OSE, Open Universe Simulator, Gwyddion, SagCAD, Emacs (with support to prolog and Gri), Maxima, Prolog, Xetex, ghemical, Fontforge, Hugin panorama editor, Gnumeric, Bluefish, Avidemux, Audacity;
Note: Terraview was not included in the 64 bits version.
Poseidon Linux 3.0:
based on Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS version, Long Term Support), and with security updates for three years;
uses the graphical interface Gnome 2.22 (Ubuntu's standard), but KDE is still available at the package manager;
all the softwares from the previous version were updated;
softwares removed due lack of support/update: Scigraphica, Vis5D;
new additions: Mapserver/Pmmaper, MB System, Stellarium, BOINC Manager, Remastersys, APTonCD and many softwares for Bioinformatics.
Poseidon Linux 2.0:
based on Kurumin 5.0 (with Kernel 2.6.11);
new graphic art and simplified menu K (in KDE);
installation manual updated and describing in details the stages of the HD partitioning;
99% of the packages only based on Debian Sarge (stable) and with security upadtes until 21/10/2005;
updated packages: KDE (3.3.2), GRASS (6.0.1), R (2.1.0), QGIS (0.7), Terraview (3.0.3), Acrobat Reader ( 7.0);
new packages included: Kopete, Qtiplot, GPSDrive, GPSMan, JUMP, Scilab, R libraries (sp and rgdal), spgrass (module for R / GRASS), gpx2shp, ABNTex, XDrawChem, Gperiodic, g3data, Fityk;
removed packages: GLChess, GAIM, aMSN.
Poseidon Linux 1.3:
based on Kurumin 4.1;
updated packages: Apt, Csh, Gimp (2.2.6), GKrellm, Kaffeine (0.6), Firefox (1.0.4), Mplayer, MySQL server and client (4.1.10), PostgreSQL server and client (7.4.7), Octave (2.1.69), R libraries (cluster, foreign, mgcv, nlme, rpart, survival), XMMS (2.1.10cvs2005), VIM, Dia;
new packages included: Labplot, graphic interface for R (using the library Rcmdr), new libraries for R (abind, car, effect, lmtest, multicomp, mvtnorm, relimp, rgl, sandwich, sm, strucchange, zoo), Kghostview, Blender;
removed packages: KOffice (KWord and KSpread), games Lbreakout and Supertux.
Poseidon Linux 1.2:
based on Kurumin 4.1 (already with KDE 3.3 and Kernel 2.6.8);
included Acrobat Reader® and plugin to open files PDF in the Mozilla Firefox;
updated packages: QGis (0.6), R (2.0.1), GRASS 6.0.0, Gri 2.12.9;
new packages included: Mozilla Firefox ( 1.0.1), MySQL 4.1.9, SPRING 4.1, Terraview and AMSN;
inaugurates of the new graphic look.