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Getting started with CAELinux 2007

J.Cugnoni, www.caelinux.com, 2007

Content:

1. Welcome & Licence terms
2. Introduction tutorial
3. Softwares included in CAELinux Beta 2007
4. Installing & upgrading CAELinux

Welcome & Licence terms:

First of all, we would like to thank you for your interest in CAELinux which we hope will fullfill your needs in Computer Aided Engineering. This Linux distribution is based on the excellent PCLinuxOS 2007 system and includes an allways increasing number of open source modelling, simulation & design softwares. Most of the content (99%) of CAELinux is provided under the well known GPL or LGPL (Gnu Public Licence) which allows you to freely use and redistribute these softwares. But as it is nearly impossible to check the licenses of all included packages, it is your responsibility to verify the licencing terms of the softwares that you are using. The authors of the distribution are not responsible for these licencing aspects and this distribution and all the included softwares are provided without any warranty.

Introduction

User accounts

The predefined login and passwords for CAELinux are:

Normal user account (recommended):

user: caelinux; password: caelinux

Root user account (not recommended for everyday use):

user: root; password: root

Documentation

For a very quick introduction to CAELinux capabilities, you should follow the Installation Manual and the Videos Tutorials.

Introduction / Installation manual (PDF):

See: Doc:InstallationGuide

Video / interactive Tutorials

Linear static stress analysis of a piston (Salome_Meca / Code-Aster)

Interactive tutorial: Doc:PistonTutorial

Simple 3D fluid dynamics analysis of a Y-shaped pipe (Salome & OpenFOAM)

Video tutorial: Doc:PipeTutorial

Softwares included in CAELinux Beta 3

Here is a non exhaustive list of CAE software packages included in CAELinux as well as some key informations to get started. Some of the softwares can be started from Desktop shortcuts or from the CAE start menu, but most of the console based tools will require that you use our special shell called 'Command line tools' (in CAE start menu).

Installing & upgrading CAELinux

Thanks to the very simple PCLinuxOS installer, you can very quickly turn your LiveDVD based CAELinux environment to a full featured hard disk install which will let you customize and update your system as you may want. We will not detail the installation steps here, but we highly recommend that you read the documentation on the PCLinuxOS Wiki section at http://www.pclinuxos.com. To install CAELinux Beta 3 on hard disk, you will need at least 10Gb of free space on an ext3 partition and preferably 1Gb on a Linux Swap partition (use PCLinuxOS disk partitionning tool to resize or create your partitions & BACKUP your data FIRST).

After installation, you will be able to customize your OS, install new packages & update your system (kernel, 3D drivers etc...) with the very efficient PCLinuxOS Control Center (in Menu->Configuration). From there, you will be able to configure all the aspects of the system and directly install & update softwares from Internet with the Synaptics software package manager.

For more information about the OS, drivers, kernel, etc.. please visit http://www.pclinuxos.com

For any other question regarding CAELinux or one of the included software, you can visit our forums at http://www.caelinux.com