Re: Debian and Scientific Linux
On 03/05/2011 05:34 PM, Juergen Salk wrote:
> * Juergen Salk <juergen.salk@gmx.de> [110305 15:46]:
>
>>> That they have Scientific Linux and are Open Source already
>>> is per se already quite remarkable.
>
>> [...] The main goal of Scientific Linux is *not* to be as
>> scientific as possible, e.g. in terms of the number of
>> scientific software packages included in the distribution. (As
>> a matter of fact, Debian comes with much, much more scientific
>> software packages than SL does).
>
> Just as an addendum in case someone is interested. This is a complete (!)
> list of scientific packages that come with Scientific Linux 6:
>
> jsalk@wattwurm:~> cat /etc/redhat-release
> Scientific Linux release 6.0 (Carbon)
> jsalk@wattwurm:~> yum groupinfo 'Scientific support'
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Setting up Group Process
>
> Group: Scientific support
> Description: Tools for mathematical and scientific computations, and parallel computing.
> Default Packages:
> gnuplot
> units
> Optional Packages:
> atlas
> lapack
> mpich2
> mpitests-mvapich
> mpitests-mvapich2
> mpitests-openmpi
> mvapich
> mvapich2
> numpy
> openmpi
> jsalk@wattwurm:~>
>
> That's it. It's simply what comes with RHEL6 anyway. They don't even
> have R in SL6 any more. So it is really a myth that Scientific Linux
> provides much extras for scientists. It's simply not their goal. It's
> all about compatibility with RHEL which makes SL so attractive as a
> common platform for huge computing environments.
Right. Little is added:
https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/features/added
https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/features/differences
And all the CERN physics environments are indeed not a part of it as
it seems. And there is yet no ROOT or CERNLIB binary package for it
but only for older versions :)
http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/production-version-528
http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/version.html
Thank you for pointing this out!
Steffen
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