Pratul K. Agarwal from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA) has released VigyaanCD. Vigyaan (http://www.vigyaancd.org/) is an electronic workbench for bioinformatics, computational biology and computational chemistry. It has been designed to meet the needs of both beginners and experts. VigyaanCD is a complete computer operating system on a CD, containing all the required software to boot the computer with ready to use modeling software. No additional software or operating system is required for VigyaanCD to work.
At present the following ready to use software comes on VigyaanCD: Artemis, Bioperl, BLAST (NCBI-tools), ClustalX, Cn3D, EMBOSS tools, Garlic, GROMACS, Ghemical, GNU R, Gnuplot, GIMP, ImageMagick, JMol, MPQC, NJPlot, Open Babel, Octave, PSI3, PyMOL, Rasmol, Raster3D, SMILE, TINKER, XDrawChem, Xmgr and Xfig. GNU C/C++/Fortran compilers and additional Linux tools (such as ps2pdf) are also available.