Hello all; I am a Computational Chemistry researcher at a Canadian University (Brock University). I am very enthusiastic about the OpenSolaris and was wondering if people would be interested to help in a project that aims at porting Computational Chemistry software (NAMD, VMD, and AMBER) to the OpenSolaris System. Most of this software comes as an open source code, and I would like to perhaps compile as well as modify the codes to work with OpenSolaris. I wasn't sure; however, if the OpenSOlaris is mature enough for this yet? Two major issues are obtaining a FORTRAN 90 compiler (AMBER software) and also obtaining gtk-2.0 library (for the software Ghemical). I believe if one could prove OpenSolaris to be able to handle such crucial software to Computational Chemist, this could open the door to more use of OpenSolaris in this area.
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