Mathematical Software for Linux along with other educational software

[MetalheadGautham]

I urgently need to collect a bunch of software to make a custom distro using linux live scripts primarily focused on education, with mathematics being the MAIN subject and remaining sciences as secondary.

Please suggest me names with descriptions.

I have around 6 hours to complete the project now. And I need to submit it in another 12 hours.

[herteljt]

I urgently need to collect a bunch of software to make a custom distro using linux live scripts primarily focused on education, with mathematics being the MAIN subject and remaining sciences as secondary.

Please suggest me names with descriptions.

I have around 6 hours to complete the project now. And I need to submit it in another 12 hours.

What level are you intending the distro to be used with?

Here are three suggestions:

GeoGebra - a graphing package similar in some ways to Geometer's Skecthpad
http://www.geogebra.org/cms/

Kturtle - a logo program
http://edu.kde.org/kturtle/

Sage - Open Source Mathematics Software
http://www.sagemath.org/

[Diabolis]

Maxima (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/)

R project (http://www.r-project.org/)

Ubuntu science documentation (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuScience)

[MetalheadGautham]

Well, the distro is just going to run on a system with a P4 HT 3.06GHz system with intel 910GL graphics and 256MB DDR RAM.

And its going to be based on Dream Linux, not Ubuntu because ubuntu runs on that system in ANY way but fast. :(

But if you have a way to make it fast (I am going to use Xfce) please suggest it since Ubuntu is a better choice thanks to getdeb.com.

[eldragon]

octave is quite similar to matlab too

sage is supposed to be more advanced, but its more complicated, requiring the user to know python.

[Proton Soup]

i haven't tried it on Linux yet, but SciLab is one you may want.

[MetalheadGautham]

OK, now one more question: Is it possible by any chance to get Ubuntu 8.04.1 to run on 32bit Intel Pentium 4 Processor with HT Technology at 3.06GHz and 256MB DDR RAM along with GMA 900 Onboard graphics ?

I URGENTLY need to finish it and have only hours left. Its 4:00 AM in my part of the world, and I am still trying to get something done.

Dream is SCREWED UP real bad. Something is seriously wrong with Debian. I luckily have ubuntu CD and an apt-on-cd package with its updates with me.

[WW]

If you want XFCE, you could try Xubuntu (http://www.xubuntu.org/).

[MetalheadGautham]

If you want XFCE, you could try Xubuntu (http://www.xubuntu.org/).

I have installed xubuntu-desktop package in both ubuntu 7.04 and 8.04.
Not at all at par with Xfce in Arch Linux. :(
How is it compared to Debian ?