To simplify scientist self-administration of the workstation, consider WebMin & it's UserMin module. See April Linux Journal review.
> scientific calculations. What kind of science? Bio/Genetic, Geo/Soc/Stat, HPC MPPC ? If Clustering, / Hi-Performance Computing, that's a whole different kettle of fish. BioGenetic: http://www.mybio.net/biowiki/Computational_biology lists several. Geo: ArchLinux (Archeology), GIS Knoppix, see http://www.opensourcegis.org/ Quantian is Knoppix/Debian Live packaging of lots of scientific calculation goodness. [ http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Quantian ] See also "GNU/Linux in Science and Engineering" FAQ at http://www.comsoc.org/vancouver/scieng.html http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScienceCD uses AutoPackage to install to any distro Website has links to many other Linux for Sciences projects too. > functional and reasonably supportable. MIS is familiar with RH stuff, > if that matters. Scientific Linux suits RH-similarity Your MIS should be able to fit Scientific Linux into their RH BootStrap system. A number of others might be RH/Centos/Fedora derived, see http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=independence to see who is based on whom (but hasn't been updated for Ubuntu variants yet?). Or just use the Gnome Science CD with MIS's RH desktop ? If you want Ubuntu cool-ness, Scibuntu is the Ubu answer to Science Linux (from the RH/Fedora camp). -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
