Le Jeudi 28 Novembre 2002 18:10, Austin Acton a �crit : > On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 10:27, G�tz Waschk wrote: > > I've experienced that scientists prefer specialized distributions > > fitting their research needs. Maybe there's a chemistry distribution > > you're not aware of that bundles the stuff you need? > > Not true at all. > Most scientists I know (I know a lot of em), use Windows. A few use > Sun/SGI. The rest get a redhat cd, do a "default" install, and spend > weeks trying to compile everything else they need from source. > There is no good reason for this, and there is not one good reason > Mandrake shouldn't be the best distro for a scientist's desktop, or as a > powerful workstation. > Plus I like making RPMs. :-) > > Austin
Hum, the rest get a redhat cd ! False, the rest are obliged to get a redhat, and complain about being forced to use what hardware companies provide them : Bruker for example sold a EPR machine to our lab. Now, the guy in charge of the machine, complains about Red Hat being less productive than my powerfull Mandrake box ( the lab bought one box, and i upgraded it myself). Definitively, Mandrake is the best choice in that case, what is ashaming is taht companies don't have any contract with Mandrake, but they do with Red Hat. As i told you, i'm a scientist (OK, only a little PhD) but i love Mandrake, so not all the rest are addicted to Red Hat. And urpmi rocks. Stef
