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The Random Factory is pleased to announce the availability of our Open Source Astronomy V10 software collections on cdrom.

Each version comprises 5 cdroms filled with Open Source Astronomy software pre-built for your platform of choice. A total of over 150 packages, covering all aspects of astronomy; over 5Gb of ready to run software.

This release updates all the packages from "Volumes 7,8 & 9" and includes many new packages. This is our first multi-platform release and is available for Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows operating systems. Each 5-disc set is platform specific so please be careful to order the correct one for your system.

The Mac OS X version also includes a comprehensive Fink distribution including KDE/Gnome window managers, applications and development tools, facilitating the building of thousands of other Open Source software packages.

The Windows distribution is similarly equipped with a Cygwin cd which also includes X11/KDE/Gnome desktops and a full software development environment providing the capability to build many other Open Source software packages.

Price and availability information is here

An index of packages arranged by subject is here

The package / operating system index is here

Please select your operating system for detailed information about this release.

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