[Mageia-discuss] [Ticket #191] Sciences in Mageia

Tue Jun 28 14:04:31 CEST 2011

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+On Jun 28, 2011 @ 03:03 pm, tvl83 at gmx.de wrote:
+Am 22.06.2011 10:51, schrieb grenoya:
+> Hello
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+> I'd like to make science libraries and softwares more visible in Mageia.
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+> Mageia, like other distro, contains a big amount of packages for
+> scientists (more than ScientificLinux in fact :) ).
+> But no distro are doing ads about that.
+> Looking around french labs, I noted the distro used and the reasons :
+> - ScientificLinux -> because of the name (which is a joke for me)
+> - Debian -> for stability
+> - Fedora -> for security
+> - Mandriva -> because it's French and/or there are contributors in lab's
+> sysadmin team
+> I'm not saying Mageia has more things than Fedora, Debian and Mdv. I
+> just want to show to scientific community, that they can also use Mageia :)
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+> The first step was for me to list all that we have and all that we miss.
+> It has been done here :
+> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=sciencesig
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+> I'd think the second step would be to make a groupe of wiki/web pages
+> (by type or by application domain ?).
+> What do you think about that ?
+> Do some of you want to help or have any idea ?
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+> Cheers
+> grenoya
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+Just a small note, in that direction:
+My colleague and me would be very happy, if R (the statistic programming 
+language) - or to be more exact rscript - would work properly.
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+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1434
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+Regards,
+Thorsten
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