Connie Sieh wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Michael Hannon wrote:
Hi, folks. I'm getting some inquiries about Ubuntu these days. The
following, from one of our postdocs, is fairly typical:
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We have asked may times for volunteers to help us put all of those
scientific applications into SL. The only thing we ever get is "please
put in so.and.so". We do not get "Yes, I will help you put in these
scientific applications".
We are only 2 people. There are many who are doing debian.
Plus we have not had anyone request "axiom, singular or grace". We have
asked the "root" developers to provide a rpm of "root" but I have not
seen it yet. Note that it is different to make a rpm, one has to tell
us that it exists so we can put it in.
There maybe some advance on this in the near future , depends on if a
project that we are working on actually moves forward.
Thanks, Connie. I'd like to make it clear that I think that you and
Troy do an amazing job, and I'm certainly not faulting you for not being
able to do the work of 20 people. But I DO get inquiries about Ubuntu,
and I'd genuinely like to know how people in other SL environments are
dealing with similar issues.
- Mike
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Dept. of Physics 530.752.4966
University of California 530.752.4717 FAX
Davis, CA 95616-8677
