Christopher Hunter wrote: > Hi, Hey Chris, Welcome on board! Sorry for the delay of my response, I've just spotted your mail now. > I trolled on at the last IRC meeting for Fedora SIG Astronomy. I should > make a better introduction. My name is Chris Hunter, I am with IT > support for astronomy & astrophysics at yale university, in connecticut > usa. Our department has ~100 linux machines; 70 which are desktop > workstations for faculty, students & research staff. We also support > workstations at astronomical observatories in the usa and south america. > > We use linux because most research software has a history of starting in > a UNIX environment. Our current platform of choice is scientific linux > (www.scientificlinux.org); close second is OS X. We additionally use ESO > "scisoft" research software packages (www.eso.org/scisoft). Interesting, anyone who wish to try to port it for Fedora? I believe it's not easy, maybe we can do it for Fedora 10. > We are evaluating alternate platforms that will provide support for new > projects such as "Virtual Observatory" tools (typically java based or > SOA). A key decision factor will be how easily we can incorporate > "non-free", or academic licenced software into local installations. > > I'm interested in fedora-astronomy, since fedora will give us bleeding > edge hardware support and looks provide packaging of popular > astronomical research software. Nice to have your here, please come to our next meeting :) do you have any experience with packaging? > Regards, > -- Marek Mahut https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy/ Fedora Project http://www.jamendo.com/
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