After almost six months, Joël Cugnoni has ad the new 2020 version of CAELinux. The latest CAELinux 2020 is based on the long-term version Xubuntu 18.04, and comes with several new tools and updated CAELinux core packages.
With a focus on Computer Aided Design (CAD), CAELinux is a Linux LiveDVD distribution, which you can boot directly from DVD or USB stick without installation.
But with the latest ISO image update to fix an issue with installing and starting LiveDVD, you can now only run CAELinux 2020 from a USB flash drive. By simply inserting the CAELinux LiveUSB into your computer, you can turn it into a free and open source engineering development workstation.
On top of that, you also have tons of open source CAD / CAM / CAE applications for mechanical design, stress analysis, heat transfer, flow simulation, and CNC / 3D printing manufacturing such as Freecad. , OpenSCAD, LibreCad and Cura.
Not only that, but CAELinux 2020 also contains a full range of electronic design tools such as KiCad, Arduino, Flatcam and dxf2gcode / cadpy for PCB insulation milling.
For scientific computing and mathematical modeling, it also offers the latest version of development tools such as Python 3 with Spyder, GNU Octave, R, Java, Perl and a full suite of GNU compilers.
How to get and install CAELinux 2020?
If you want to try it out now, download each of the three parts of the 7z archive from here. Then unzip the ISO using 7zip and create a bootable USB flash disk using a multi-iso bootloader, Ventoy, which is highly recommended.
After creating a bootable USB stick, simply plug it into your system and boot into CAELinux 2020. For more information on installation, read Getting Started page.
