On 22 June 2011 09:51, grenoya <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
When time appears, I would eally like to help with this. I have been working on getting some missing engineering packages ready. This would be a good thing to get done in time for mga 2.
