Poseidon Linux
title: "Poseidon Linux" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["discontinued-ubuntu-derivatives", "spanish-language-linux-distributions", "portuguese-language-linux-distributions", "linux-distributions"] topic_path: "technology/operating-systems" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poseidon_Linux" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Poseidon Linux |
| logo | [[Image:Poseidon logo.png |
| screenshot | [[File:Poseidon 4-menu.png |
| caption | Poseidon Linux 4 showing menu |
| developer | Poseidon Linux team |
| family | Linux (Unix-like) |
| ui | GNOME |
| license | Various |
| source_model | Open source |
| working_state | Discontinued |
| latest_release_version | 9.0 |
| latest_release_date | Sept 2017 |
| kernel_type | Monolithic kernel |
| :: |
| name = Poseidon Linux | logo = [[Image:Poseidon logo.png|200px|The logo of Poseidon linux]] | screenshot = [[File:Poseidon 4-menu.png|250px|The Desktop under Poseidon 4]] | caption = Poseidon Linux 4 showing menu | developer = Poseidon Linux team | family = Linux (Unix-like) | ui = GNOME | license = Various | source_model = Open source | working_state = Discontinued | latest_release_version = 9.0 | latest_release_date = Sept 2017 | kernel_type = Monolithic kernel Poseidon Linux was a Linux operating system based on Ubuntu (originally based on Kurumin), it was maintained by developers located at the Rio Grande Federal University in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and the MARUM institute in Germany.
Poseidon Linux was aimed at the international scientific community, it came with a range of applications for fields such as GIS, 3D visualization, and statistics.
Naming
The name Poseidon was chosen after the Greek God because many of the projects developers worked in Oceanology.
History
The development team stated that after Poseidon 5.0, the distribution would focus on bathymetry, seafloor mapping, and GIS software. Many of the bundled CAD and scientific programs were removed, but may be separately available for download from compatible repositories.
Around 2016 the 3 main Poseidon Linux domains (poseidon.furg.br, es.poseidonlinux.org, en.poseidonlinux.org) seemingly expired and their google site domain rebranded from "the Official Website of Poseidon Linux in English" to "The Official Website of Poseidon Linux"
The project is seemingly dead with the last release having been in 2017.
Releases
::data[format=table title="Timeline {{cite web |url=http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=poseidon |title = DistroWatch.com: Poseidon Linux}}{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/poseidonlinux/|title=Poseidon Linux - The Scientific GNU/Linux for Seafloor Mapping|website=sites.google.com|access-date=2017-07-27}}"]
| Version | Date | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | 2005? | The release date may be 2005-10-25. |
| 3.0 | 2008-06-21 | The projects base distribution was changed from Kurumin to Ubuntu LTS. For the first time a 64-bit version was released. |
| 4.0 | 2010-10-27 | Based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. |
| 5.0 | 2013/2014? | Based on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. |
| 6.0 | ||
| 7.0 | 2015-07-03 | Based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. |
| 8.0 | 2016-11-23 | Based on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS. |
| 9.0 | 2017-09-29 | Based on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS. |
| :: |
References
References
- "Página inicial - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG".
- Schroder, Carla. (2011-08-23). "First Look at Poseidon Linux, the Linux For Scientists".
- "Poseidon Linux - The Scientific GNU/Linux for Seafloor Mapping".
- "Archive of Poseidonlinux.org".
- "DistroWatch.com: Poseidon Linux".
- "Poseidon Linux - The Scientific GNU/Linux for Seafloor Mapping".
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