Hello Benda, (do I address you correctly?) great to hear that Debian is used in your community. We had IT and electrical engineering students as visitors from China and India with us over the summer who said that it was all Windows back home. For me it was pure fun using a Chinese Windows environment on their laptops - since then I suddenly consider the localisation efforts much more important. Back to your question: You are doing just fine. Read reviews on the net to learn about what individual packages can do. This helps you to find answers to problems you have or spawns ideas for analyses you could possibly address. There are several parts of it from how I see it: * using the right tools for the analysis of your mathematical / physical / chemical / ... problem * using the right tools to organise and monitor the CPUs for distributed computation * using the right tools to visualised and document the results of your work For each domain there is ample of opportunity to use Debian to your benefit. I think it is just fine if you tell the list a bit more about what you want to achieve. You might find someone with similar requirements who is willing to share and explain his setup. While I am not aware of an FAQ, you might be interested to skim the DebianScience wiki page at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience Best regards Steffen On Saturday 13 January 2007 08:47, Hero_xbd!.RRR wrote: > Hello, everybody. > > I am a university student of mathematics and physics and have been using > Debian GNU/Linux for about 4 years since I was in senior high. > > At present I want to make use of the scientific packages in Debian to > optimize my study as well as research (seminar). I have read some > manuals on Octave, Maxima, Axiom, and TeXmacs, tried something out. But > I still don't have a general concept of scientific computing (or maybe > this saying "scientific computing" is itself wrongly used?). > > So I subscribed on this list, but I find that the topics around are too > specific for me. > > Is there an FAQ of this list? > Could you please recommend some tutorials on how to establish a > scientific computing environment, esp. for physicists and > mathematicians, for study and research? > And what packages are best for starting? > > Or some advice for me to avoid useless and time-consuming > trying-and-discarding newbie loops? > > > Thanks in advance! > Cheers. > > -- > Xu Benda > > Fundamental Science of Mathematics and Physics, > Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R.China, 100084 > > tel:86-10-51531861 > http://learn.tsinghua.edu.cn:8080/2005012177
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