Hi Josh, We at my local OpenSolaris community are working at porting these scientific and educational application on Solaris. You can help us by sharing which all F/OSS applications, available on *nix, you would like to see on OpenSolaris.
Thanks and regards, Kumar Abhishek Campus Ambassador - SASTRA University Thanjavur, INDIA Sun Microsystems Mail: Kr.Abhishek at Sun.COM Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/krabhishek/ --------------------------------------------- -Sent through my iPod Touch On 31-May-08, at 9:00 AM, Josh <jcchang at mednet.ucla.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > Anybody know where to get packages for some common scientific > programs such as: > > R + packages > python + packages... numpy, scipy, pylab > fftw > some sort of tex distribution + packages > octave > > I had my first exposure to Solaris as an undergrad working in a > computational biology lab. I know it's in pretty wide use > academically. It would be nice if scientific packages were > available. Right now I'm trying to use pkgsrc, but I think having a > formal scientific repository is a nicer solution. So I guess this > post is part question and part suggestion. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > edu-discuss mailing list > edu-discuss at opensolaris.org
