Hello everyone: I wanted to bring to your attention my efforts at creating a Fedora Scientific Spin [1]. I have put in the spin page [2] some of my goals, the reasons of the packages I have selected and the current state of the project. Reproducing from there: This spin will be based on the Fedora desktop spin. In addition, a number of tools and libraries for scientific research is included. I have decided upon the current set of applications based on my own experience and some discussions on mailing lists, notably the Canberra Linux Users Group. The current set of packages include a IDE, tools and libraries for programming in C, C++, Python, Java and R. Also included alongwith are libraries for parallel computing such as the OpenMPI and OpenMP. Tools for typesetting, writing and publishing are included. Scientific computing libraries and tools such as the GNU Scientific Library, SciPy, Octave, Maxima are also shipped in this spin. The current set of packages are provided from the Fedora 15 repository for my tests and the ISO stands at ~1.6 Gigs. I am currently using it on my Desktop and after installation takes about ~6 gigs of disk space. Since Fedora 15 is stable, so is Fedora Scientific! (NB: As of now, the Rawhide repository is far from being stable and I hence I have refrained from using it for my testing.) Like I have pointed out in the spin page, I want this spin to be under the umbrella of the SciTech SIG and hence invite all of you to kindly make your suggestions/comments. I shall keep the list updated on the progress of this effort, specially the outcome of the spin wrangling process. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Amitksaha#Fedora_Scientific_Spin [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scientific_Spin Thanks! -Amit -- http://echorand.me _______________________________________________ scitech mailing list scitech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/scitech
