Hello, I caught your post on www.astrobetter.com about STSCI data. I'm currently involved in a project to package astronomy related RPM's for RPM linux distributions like Mageia and Fedora. https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Science_SIG https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Astronomy_SIG The goal is that by making astronomy packages part of the main distributions we will have less of a problem keeping things updated. By having things as part of a larger project rather than a standalone distribution, it becomes possible to do things like shared build infrastructure. One thing that I could use is some guidance as to which packages are most important to get incorporated. We've already generated packages for IRAF and DS9, but in looking at the large list of ESO scisoft packages, it's not clear which RPM's should be packaged next. If you could give us some guidance as to which packages would be of highest priority, that would be very helpful. My background is theory so I don't have a good sense of which observational packages are more important or less important. In addition, if you could provide links to the SIG wiki pages, that would be very useful. Both Mageia and fedora rely on volunteer efforts so that if we can get more packagers with astronomy backgrounds, this would be useful. _______________________________________________ Fedora astronomy mailing list astronomy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/astronomy
