Jordan Mantha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everybody! > > My name is Jordan Mantha (LaserJock on irc, etc.) and I am a PhD > grad student in Physical Chemistry. For the last few months I have > been working with the Ubuntu universe repository maintainers (MOTU) > [1] trying to make sure that science related packages in Ubuntu are in > good shape. I had noticed that many science related packages seem to > be somewhat neglected in Ubuntu/Debian in comparison to other areas > and I wanted to help out. I had come across debian-science and Helen > Faulkner's great Debconf 5 talk and wanted to do something similar in > Ubuntu as well.
As a scientist who uses Linux, I wish you the best with this. What would be really useful to me are reviews comparing different solutions to the same problem - and explaining their respective merits. There was one posted to the mailing list recently, but whether it made it to a wiki or web site, I'm not sure. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuScientists looks useful - and should be made more prominent on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTUScience. At the risk of duplicating Scientific applications on Linux, here are some suggestions: In the Mathematics section, it would be useful to use the subcategories used by SAL: Computer alegbra: Mathematica, Maple, (non-free) Maxima Array oriented and linear alegbra systems. Matlab, Octave, scilab, Statistics Number Theory Misc pylab/matplotlib http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ would be a useful addition to the "array oriented and linear algebra systems" Saying what scicos actually does would be useful. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
