On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Philip S Tellis wrote:
->On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
->
->> Thanks to both pablo and amit. I will be configuring 5 486 pcs to d
->> iskless linux machines either the coming sunday or the next. If any of you
->> are interested in participating in this, you may join me. Date will be
->> either 23rd or 30th. after 2pm. The idea is to basically make them become
->> xclients.
->
->Can we have it on the 30th, my exams are on the 23rd so I can't make it
->then. A few other things I would like to try out with this kind of setup:
Yes, fixed for 30th, a workshop on diskless setup. We will use the
documentation suggested by Amit, and improve it if necessary. So
workshop this 23rd.
->The reason I want to do this is that one of my professors at Xavier's
->complained that there weren't enough scientific applications out there
->that are easily available to colleges. Most colleges can't (or won't) pay
->for expensive sc apps.
GNU/Linux has produced a large number of scientific applications,
including a clone of mathematica called scilab, large number of
plotter of professional quality, scientific document editing systems
like TeX, LaTeX, drawing utilities like Xfig, are the applications
that are used on a regular basis by students in all IITs. Somehow
this did not percolate down to many colleges. Gnuplot, e.g, has been
used in the academic communities for the last 10 years or more. There
are many fractal engines, Spice for curcuit simulation, cactus and
rasmol for chemistry, are very popular. Some of these applications
have been used even on SGI platforms, and are available for all
unices. All that I want to say is that you can very confidently
suggest any academic institution to adopt Linux as a working platform
for all their requirements. If you need any help, we will workout
demos for them.
->
->Third, if they had 3 486 machines at different points, this would probably
->cost the same as one pentium II. The machines can be used for research by
->students and faculty alike, while the faculty can build their reports and
->tests on the machine (currently all class test question papers are hand
->written which isn't exactly easy to read)
->
There are many LaTeX macros available for preformated question papers.
All that the author needs to do is write questions. Both teachers and
students will find this package very useful, particularly for
mathematics equations.
Nagarjuna
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