Re: ubuntu-science
Jordan Mantha <mantha@chem.unr.edu> writes:
> Hello everybody!
>
> My name is Jordan Mantha (LaserJock on irc, etc.) and I am a PhD
> grad student in Physical Chemistry. For the last few months I have
> been working with the Ubuntu universe repository maintainers (MOTU)
> [1] trying to make sure that science related packages in Ubuntu are in
> good shape. I had noticed that many science related packages seem to
> be somewhat neglected in Ubuntu/Debian in comparison to other areas
> and I wanted to help out. I had come across debian-science and Helen
> Faulkner's great Debconf 5 talk and wanted to do something similar in
> Ubuntu as well.
As a scientist who uses Linux, I wish you the best with this.
What would be really useful to me are reviews comparing different solutions
to the same problem - and explaining their respective merits. There
was one posted to the mailing list recently, but whether it made it to
a wiki or web site, I'm not sure.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuScientists looks useful - and should be
made more prominent on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTUScience.
At the risk of duplicating Scientific applications on Linux, here are
some suggestions:
In the Mathematics section, it would be useful to use the
subcategories used by SAL:
Computer alegbra:
Mathematica, Maple, (non-free)
Maxima
Array oriented and linear alegbra systems.
Matlab, Octave, scilab,
Statistics
Number Theory
Misc
pylab/matplotlib http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ would be a useful
addition to the "array oriented and linear algebra systems"
Saying what scicos actually does would be useful.
Chris
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