Fedora Scientific KDE Live is an open source distribution of Linux built around the KDE SC desktop environment and comprised of a wide range of scientific oriented applications. It uses the latest stable base of the Fedora Linux operating system.
Availability, boot options and supported architectures
Users can download this scientific Fedora Live edition as Live DVD ISO images of approximately 4GB in size, which means that they can only be deployed to DVD discs or USB thumb drives of 4GB or higher capacity.
Both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86_64) architectures are supported at this time. The live bootable medium can be used to try the operating system without installing anything on your computer, as well as to start an existing OS from the first disk drive or run a system memory diagnostic test.
Robust and contemporary desktop environment with state-of-the-art apps
Using the robust and contemporary KDE desktop environment, this Live CD system offers various open source scientific applications and libraries, such as GNU Octave, GNU Scientific library, Xfig, g3data, Kile, RKWard, Sagemath, XMaxima, Inkscape, the SciPy libraries, OpenMP, and OpenMPI.
Default applications include Krita digital painting software, DNGConverter DNG image converter utility, KTorrent torrent downloader, GIMP image editor, HexChat IRC client, Mozilla Firefox and Konqueror web browser, Amarok audio player, K3b CD/DVD/BD burning software, Dragon Player media player, and Calligra office suite.
Bottom line
Summing up, Fedora Scientific KDE Live CD is a really great and stable Linux distribution. It comes with numerous scientific oriented apps and tools, which have been designed to help all sorts of scientists.
Fedora is based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux technologies, which means that it’s a trusted operating system that can be deployed on any computer with minimum effort, supporting a wide range of modern and old hardware components.
