Urs Beyerle wrote:
Hi Al,
Al Neumann wrote:
[...]
Just not really sure what SL has been doing... i.e: Where are those real
scientific apps!!?
Somewhat dismayed at the use of "scientific" in current SL.
Al
I know that's confusing. And it's the most frequently ask question about
SL -> https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/general1
Q. Where are all the 'science' programs?
Q. Is Scientific Linux better for scientific applications?
A. This linux distribution is called Scientific Linux because it is made
by scientific labs, for scientific labs and universities. It is not
named Scientific Linux because it has the largest collection of
scientific programs. It was named back when it was small, and only the
scientific labs were using it.
Cheers,
Urs
Hello Al,
I would suggest enabling the dag repos to get some of the applications
other distros have, including stellarium.
This can be accomplished by editing /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo, and changing
enabled=0
to
enabled=1
If you want to see what sorts of packages are in this repo before
enabling, you can browse them online here:
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages.php
or here:
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dag/redhat/el5/en/i386/dag/RPMS/
(the above URL won't contain any extra info on the packages, though)
These are packages maintained as extra for various EL-variants such as
centOS and Scientific Linux.
Hope this makes your experience more akin to what you're used to!
-Chris
