I thought I had posted this earlier, but while going through the
archives I realised it wasn't there. So here it goes again.
Suvayu Ali wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi,
I am doing a quick survey for software that you use on a regular basis
that is not available via the Fedora repository. Software that you
suggest should be free and open source, free of patent and other legal
issues.
Tell me the home page of the software and give me a brief description on
what it does. Bonus points if you can see in Google for "software-name
fedora package review" to figure it if it is already in the Fedora
package review queue. If you know of RPM packages in other distributions
for the software your are suggesting, that information is useful as well.
Hi Rahul,
I would really love to see the data analysis framework, ROOT[1] in
Fedora. I know the user base is very niche, mostly data analysis in High
Energy Physics. But still ... there are many other such popular data
analysis tools which build on ROOT, like HippoDraw.
Although the design goals for ROOT are very focused on data analysis for
High Energy Physics, it implements almost any statistical and analysis
technique under the sun making it extremely flexible and versatile. It
even implements many visualization and GUI-builder tools, interfaces
with scripting languages like Python and provides a very handy
interpreter for C++ called CINT. So if anyone wants to, they can very
easily use ROOT for other kinds of data analysis. I for example learned
from their mailing list, that there are people using ROOT analysing
images in astrophysics!
And the best thing about all this is, the developers are very active and
prompt in fixing bugs and they officially support rpms for Scientific
Linux[2]. Apart from this there is a strong user community for support
apart from the developers being very active in the user mailing list. It
would be nice to add something like this to the educational packages
category for Fedora.
As for the concerns about being *free*, it is completely open source and
uses GPL libraries like GNU Scientific Library and is already available
in the Debian repositories[3].
[1] http://root.cern.ch/drupal/
[2] http://root.cern.ch/root/Version522.html (the latest stable build)
[3] http://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/root-system
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Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
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