On 13/08/10 04:27, John J. McDonough wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 23:15 -0400, Mike Danko wrote: > >> Pouring over these, big standout is the inclusion of ROOT. I doubt >> > I noticed that, but I also noticed a lot of R add-ons. Probably a > bigger, but similar, user base. > R does seem to be gaining in popularity at the moment. I even saw in mentioned in a BBC News article. > And quickly browsing the CERN website earlier, they seem to be > positioning ROOT as a data analysis thing, not altogether unlike R but a > little glossier and able to handle much bigger datasets. I didn't dig > far enough, tho, to tell whether there was really any meat there. Of > course, a lot of the ROOT add-ons are pretty specifically for people > playing with particle accelerators. Probably not a huge audience. > > Yeah, the ROOT website mentioned that it was designed for use across multiple workstations or on many-core machines. Still, there may be some large institutions or businesses that may be interested in it. As Mike pointed out, it's also interesting from a marketing point of view, especially as F14 is codenamed after a major figure in particle physics. I'll add a section to the release notes. Nathan -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
