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Poseidon Linux 3.x – The Scientific GNU/Linux option<br />
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Figure 1. Map from the South Brazilian coast (Ferreira et al. 2005).<br />
Figure 2. 3D model from Rhamdia quelen Growth Hormone (two disulfide bonds in detail) performed - from modeling<br />
to drawing - under Poseidon Linux.<br />
Conclusions and Remarks<br />
The philosophy behind Poseidon Linux is<br />
the same as mainstream science: free access to new<br />
technologies and the freedom to exchange<br />
knowledge between scientists and the general public.<br />
This allows people from developed to developing<br />
countries to have the same access to high quality<br />
scientific software.<br />
Born out of a local effort (in Brazil), to<br />
initiate and encourage the use of high quality free<br />
software for academic and scientific purposes,<br />
Poseidon Linux has evolved and gone far beyond the<br />
original aims of the project. Even when there was<br />
only a single Portuguese language website, it scored<br />
Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences (2009), 4(3): I-VI