That sounds excellent. I would build some packages and provide an IPS depot myself but I'm not yet familiar with opensolaris.
I think scientific software is an area where Linux distributions really shine. Not only are there scientific specific distributions, but even a general purpose distribution such as Ubuntu has packages for most every OSS scientific program available. As for myself, my immediate need is mainly computational biology and statistical software. I think this is a good guide of some of the OSS scientific software that would be great to include https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuScience Emphasis on R for me though =) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
