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Things are happening with the CVS-versions of Scibuntu. Most important changes are addition of the GIS-programs GRASS and QGIS and the math program SCILAB. Please test the upcoming versions.

Did'nt you get invited to the great Nobel party tonight? There is still a reason to celebrate! Scibuntu has released the first beta version. Lots of new programs. Graphical user interface. Try it out!

Scibuntu is Ubuntu Linux for scientists and science students. Scibuntu is a script that adds scientific programs and other convinient tools to the plain desktop Ubuntu.

About a month after the earliest alpha version was released Nature mentions Scibuntu in the News in brief section.

Scibuntu is a script that converts a computer to a scientific workstation.

- Make scientists' lives easier and you can suddenly find yourself in great demand. Nature writes.

www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7119/full/444531a.html

Version 0.31-testing is available in the CVS for testers and developers.

The 0.3 series has a GUI-based chooser, where you can choose among different categories of programs.

0.31 has even improved logging and lots of bug fixes since 0.3.

Please report bugs in the tracker!