Poseidon Linux was designed as a friendly and complete desktop, based on open source software and aimed at the Brazilian/International scientific community. It is based on Ubuntu and inspired by Quantian Linux. Poseidon Linux offers several specific tools in the areas of GIS, 3D Visualization, Mathematics, Statistics and several otherfields of research. It also has all the software expected in a modern desktop such as an office suite - with spell checker, web browsers, e-mail readers, instant messaging, to cite but a few.

It includes a large number of scientific applications, covering areas such as:

· GIS and Geostatistics
· Visualization 2D/3D/4D
· Mathematics
· Statistics
· Physics
· Chemistry
· CAD / Engineering
· Computer Graphics
· Image Editing and Vectorial Drawing
· Numeric modelling / Simulation
· Scientific graphs
· Scientific Authoring
· Database
· Programming languages

Poseidon Linux 3.0 also offers all software needed to make it a complete workstation - office suite, web browser, e-mail readers, instant messaging, among others.

What's New in This Release:

· Our team is proud to announce the new Poseidon Linux 3.0! The new release supports Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, English and German languages.