Weird story.
I put up a page to track the development of Mandrake RPMs for chemistry
applications. (There were 3 in Mandrake 8.0, there are about 6 in
Mandrake 9.0, I hope to have about 20 in Mandrake 9.1).
http://groundstate.ca/mdk4chem
I told all the authors about the page, and most of them sent back the
weirdest responses, like...
-what is Mandrake?
-why no Java apps? Java's open-source isn't it?
-what's RPM?
I was really surprised! Are most developers 5 years behind the rest of
us, or is it only the scientists? Do people LIKE building stuff from
source, using freakish makefiles, ancient libraries, and static linking?
Austin
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Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com)
homepage: www.groundstate.ca
