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

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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
>
> I'd like to make science libraries and softwares more visible in Mageia.
>
> 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 :)
>
> 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
>
> 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 ?
>
> Cheers
> grenoya
>

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.

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1434

Regards,
Thorsten

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