You can download and install Scibian right away.
Scibian has a community, contribute to the project on Github !
- streamlined towards industrial R&D and engineering
- fits in corporate IT infrastructures and processes
- supports recent hardware
- maintains each major version for 6 years with security updates
- includes additional libraries to make major scientific software run out of the box
- supplies tools for binary compatibility across different versions based on schroot
Scibian launch event took place on the 30th of September in Paris. Presentation slides are available here.