About
ArcheOS is the acronym of Archeological Operating System. It is a GNU/Linux live distribution built for archaeological aims and based on Kubuntu v. 7.10. Here you can download the .iso image. To run ArcheOS, you have to burn a DVD with the .iso image and put it inside your DVD reader. Then restart the computer. It is also possible to install ArcheOs on your hardisk (click on the install ArcheOS icon). ArcheOS is developed following the OpArc project guidelines and it is released by Arc-Team s.n.c. under the General Public License (GPL).
Applications
The archaeological applications included in ArcheOS v. 2.0:
| Tipology | Software | Version | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAD | AutoQ3D | 1.36b | AutoQ3D Community is the open source software project of this 3D modeling application. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License so it will be free to use, modify and distribute within any educational, professional or commercial purposes. http://autoq3d.ecuadra.com/ |
| QCAD | 2.0.5.0 | A professional CAD System. With QCad 2 you can easily construct and change drawings with ISO-texts and many other features and save them as DXF-files. These DXF-files are the interface to many CAD-systems such as AutoCADR and many others. http://www.ribbonsoft.it/ | |
| Database | PostgreSQL - PostGIS | 8.1 | PostgreSQL is a fully featured object-relational database management system. It supports a large part of the SQL standard and is designed to be extensible by users in many aspects http://www.postgresql.org/. PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS “spatially enables” the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS). http://postgis.refractions.net/ |
| PHPPgAdmin | 4.1.2 | phpPgAdmin is intended to handle the administration of PostgreSQL over the WWW. Currently it can: create and drop databases, create, copy, drop and alter tables/views/sequences/functions, edit and add fields (to the extent Postgres does), execute any SQL-statement, even batch-queries, manage keys on fields, load text files into tables, create and read dumps of tables, administer one single database, administer postgres users. http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/ | |
| OpenOffice Base | 2.3 | OpenOffice.org is a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office. This package contains the database component for OpenOffice.org. http://www.openoffice.org/ | |
| GIS | GRASS | 6.2.3 | Geographic Resources Analysis Support System. Commonly referred to as GRASS, this is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/map production, spatial modeling, and visualization. GRASS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by many government agencies and environmental consulting companies. http://grass.itc.it/ |
| OpenJump | 1.2 D | OpenJUMP is an open source GIS software written in Java. It is a Vector GIS that can read rasters as well. http://openjump.org/wiki/show/HomePage | |
| Saga | 2.0b | SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses- is a hybrid GIS software. The first objective of SAGA is to give (geo-)scientists an effective but easy learnable platform for the implementation of geoscientific methods, which is achieved by SAGA's unique Application Programming Interface (API). The second is to make these methods accessible in a user friendly way.http://www.saga-gis.uni-goettingen.de/html/index.php | |
| QGIS | 0.9 | A Geographic Information System (GIS) manages, analyzes, and displays databases of geographic information. Quantum GIS (QGIS) supports shapefile viewing and editing, spatial data storage with PostgreSQL/PostGIS, projection on-the-fly, map composition, and a number of other features via a plugin interface. QGIS also supports display of various georeferenced raster and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) formats including GeoTIFF, Arc/Info ASCII Grid, and USGS ASCII DEM. http://www.qgis.org/ | |
| uDig | 1.1-RC12 | uDig is an open source GIS software program produced by a community led by Canadian-based company Refractions Research. It is based around the Eclipse platform and features full layered Open Source GIS. It is written in Java and released under GNU Lesser General Public License. http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/Home | |
| GPS | GPSDrive | 2.09 | GpsDrive is a car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system. GpsDrive displays your position provided from your NMEA capable GPS receiver on a zoomable map, the map file is autoselected depending of the position and preferred scale. Speech output is supported if the “festival” software is running. The maps are autoselected for best resolution depending of your position. All Garmin GPS reveiver with a serial output should be usable, also other GPS receiver which supports NMEA protocol. http://www.gpsdrive.de/ |
| Graphic (3D) | Blender | 2.44 | Blender is an integrated 3d suite for modelling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback (games). Blender has its own particular user interface, which is implemented entirely in OpenGL and designed with speed in mind. Python bindings are available for scripting; import/export features for popular file formats like 3D Studio and Wavefront Obj are implemented as scripts by the community. Stills, animations, models for games or other third party engines and interactive content in the form of a standalone binary and/or a web plug-in are common products of Blender use. http://www.blender.org/ |
| MakeHuman | 0.9.0 | MakeHuman is a application for parametrical modeling of three-dimensional humanoid characters. http://www.dedalo-3d.com/ | |
| Graphic (raster) | enblend | 3.0 | Enblend is a tool for compositing images. Given a set of images that overlap in some irregular way, Enblend overlays them in such a way that the seam between the images is invisible, or at least very difficult to see. http://enblend.sourceforge.net/ |
| Gimp | 2.4.0-rc3 | GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. http://www.gimp.org/ | |
| GQview | 2.0.4 | GQview, an image browser that features single click access to view images and move around the directory tree. http://gqview.sourceforge.net/ | |
| GwenView | 1.4.1 | Gwenview is an image viewer for the K Desktop Environment. It features a folder tree window and a file list window to provide easy navigation of your file hierarchy. Gwenview uses docked windows, so you can alter its layout any way you wish. You can also browse your images in full-screen mode, or embedded within Konqueror using the Gwenview Image Browser View and Kpart. http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/ | |
| Graphic (vector) | Inkscape | 0.45 | Inkscape loads and saves a subset of the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format, a standard maintained by the WWW consortium. Inkscape user interface should be familiar from CorelDraw and similar drawing programs. There are rectangles, ellipses, text items, bitmap images and freehand curves. As an added bonus, both vector and bitmap objects can have alpha transparency and can be arbitrarily transformed. http://www.inkscape.org/ |
| Internet (browser) | Firefox | 2.0.0.11 | Lightweight web browser based on Mozilla. Firefox is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon, K-Meleon and Camino, but written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be lightweight and cross-platform. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ |
| Internet (html editor) | Nvu | 20060530 | Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a “new view”) is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web page editing. Nvu is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding. http://nvudev.com/index.php |
| Internet (mail) | Thunderbird | 2.0.0.6 | Thunderbird is a mail/news/RSS client. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/ |
| Internet (utility) | Earth3D | 1.0.5 | Map client displaying a 3D model of the world. The map data is fetched from a server on the net, and the client will display recent satellite images and map data. http://www.earth3d.org/ |
| Laserscan | MeshLab | 1.0.0 | MeshLab is an open source, portable, and extendible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes. The system is aimed to help the processing of the typical not-so-small unstructured models arising in 3D scanning, providing a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering and converting this kind of meshes. http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ |
| Scanalyze | 1.0.3 | Scanalyze is an interactive computer graphics application for viewing, editing, aligning, and merging range images to produce dense polygon meshes. http://graphics.stanford.edu/software/scanalyze/ | |
| Library | Tellico | 1.2.13 | Tellico is a collection manager for KDE. It includes default collections for books, bibliographies, comic books, videos, music, coins, stamps, trading cards, and wines, and also allows custom collections; with unlimited user-defined fields allowed. Automatically formatted names, sorting by any property, filters, automatic ISBN validation and full customization for printing or display through XSLT files are some of the features present. It can import CSV, RIS, BibTeX, and BibTeXML files; and export CSV, HTML, BibTeX, BibTeXML, and PilotDB. Tellico can also import data from Amazon, IMDb, CDDB, or any US-MARC compliant z39.50. server.http://periapsis.org/tellico/ |
| Office | Kontact | 1.2.4 | Kontact is the integrated solution to your personal information management needs. It combines KDE applications like KMail, KOrganizer, and KAddressBook into a single interface to provide easy access to mail, scheduling, address book and other PIM functionality. http://www.kontact.org/ |
| OpenOffice | 2.3 | OpenOffice.org is a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office.It is made up of Word processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Drawing, Database and Equation editor. http://www.openoffice.org/ | |
| Scribus | 1.3.3.9 | Scribus is an open source desktop page layout program with the aim of producing commercial grade output in PDF and Postscript, primarily, though not exclusively for Linux. Scribus can be used for many tasks; from brochure design to newspapers, magazines, newsletters and posters to technical documentation. It has sophisticated page layout features like precision placing and rotating of text and/or images on a page, manual kerning of type, bezier curves polygons, precision placement of objects, layering with RGB and CMYK custom colors. The Scribus document file format is XML-based. Unlike proprietary binary file formats, even damaged documents, can be recovered with a simple text editor. http://www.scribus.net/ | |
| Photogrammetry | e-foto | 0.0.1.0 | A free digital photogrammetric workstation. The idea behind the e-foto project was to offer a simple set of software that could help students understand the principles behind Photogrammetry. The project is based on two main principles (pillars): freedom and self-teaching. The final idea is to lead the students to fully understand the princples behind Photogrammetry – reading the e-book, using the software, taking a look at its source code and even modifying it or developing new modules for it. http://www.efoto.eng.uerj.br/ |
| JSVR | 0.5b | jSVR is an implementation of the single view reconstruction technique in Java. Its main functionality is the reconstruction of a 3D scene from an image given there is enough perspective information in it. http://svr.sourceforge.net/node8.php | |
| Stereo | 0.2b | This is stand-alone stereo modeling software (DEM extraction etc). http://grass.itc.it/gdp/stereo-grass/index.html | |
| Statistic | R | 2.5.1 | R is `GNU S' - A language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is similar to the award-winning S system, which was developed at Bell Laboratories by John Chambers et al. It provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques (linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification, clustering, …). http://www.r-project.org/ |
| Video Tutorial | KSubtile | 1.1 | Subtitle editor for KDE. This editor is capable of moving, stretching, joining, editing and creating SRT subtitle files. It can use MPlayer to help you sync and edit the subtitles with a particular movie. http://ksubtile.sourceforge.net/ |
| XVidCap | 1.1.6 | A screen capture enabling you to capture videos off your X-Window desktop for illustration or documentation purposes. It is intended to be a standards-based alternative to tools like Lotus ScreenCam. http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/ | |
| Voxel | ParaView | 3.2.1 | ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform application designed to visualize data sets of size varying from small to very large. The goals of the ParaView project include the following: develop an open-source and multi-platform visualization application, support distributed computation models to process large data sets, create an open, flexible, and intuitive user interface and develop an extensible architecture based on open standards. http://www.paraview.org/New/index.html |
| VRML | WhiteDune | 0.28.12 | Graphical VRML97 viewer, editor, 3D modeller and animation tool. http://vrml.cip.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/dune/ |
| WebGIS | Pmapper | 3.2.0 | A PHP/MapScript framework and application for UMN MapServer. http://www.pmapper.net/ |
