Re: Quick Poll: Debian to better support hardware acceleration?

Hi, "M. Zhou" writes: > Q: How far should Debian go along the way for supporting hardware > acceleration solutions like CUDA? I think Debian is already doing a good job with CUDA, at least as it pertains to my work with Python+GPU. My thanks and please keep it up! One recent example for me

Re: future of root-system: removal?

Mattia Rizzolo writes: > I haven't. Please (feel free to) do it, keeping in mind that I still > plan to remove it before the end of the month. I sent a message[1] to roottalk. -Brett. [1]

Re: root-system update

Hi Mattia, Mattia Rizzolo writes: > I noticed that root-system is keeping a lot of other packages out of > testing because it's currently broken. > > That's bad! :) I give you huge encouragements to tackle this! > I want to have a stab updating it, but before I'd like to

Re: Proposal: Debian Science mailing lists

Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu writes: While I *personally* do not have a problem with the current situation I agree with Sylvestre that currently debian-science@l.d.o is not kind of missing link between developers and users. Because I think we should establish such a place and this list

Re: Removal of QCAD

Thomas Weber twe...@debian.org writes: Speaking as an occasional user: please provide a transitional package. FWIW, I echo this desire. I've transitioned from qcad to librecad and confirm it is an improvement as well as a successor. The change in name may fool someone into passing over

Re: Debian and Scientific Linux

Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com writes: I ran Debian, RH, Fedora, CenOS, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, etc. before and am still running some of them. What is the major difference of SL from other Linux distro? Thanks In your list, SL is closest to CentOS. SL is a rebuild from RHEL sources with RH

Re: Reproducibility

Teemu Ikonen tpiko...@gmail.com writes: Does anyone here have good ideas on how to ensure reproducibility in the long term? Regression testing, as mentioned, or running some fixed analysis and statistically comparing the results to past runs. We worry about reproducibility in my field of

Why I'm here (Was: Debian Science Policy)

Manuel Prinz deb...@pinguinkiste.de writes: Debian-science@ has mainly been a user list and there was discussion about moving maintaining-related issues to a different list to not bother users on debian-science. Most of the subscribers there seem to have no or very few interest in packaging.

Re: Yet another list statistics for debian-science

Andreas Tille ti...@ravel.debian.org writes: I did some investigation on who is frequently posting on our mailing lists. Here are we: http://people.debian.org/~tille/liststats/authorstat_science.pdf It is interesting work. If you want suggestions, it would be nice to know the total number

Reading ArcGrid formated geological data on Debian? Alternatives?

Any geographers in the house? I need an elevation map for a particular region (China mainland near Hong Kong) and I found that the US Geological Survey supplies some data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. However, for the region of interest it is only available in a proprietary format

Re: Reading ArcGrid formated geological data on Debian? Alternatives?

Hi Nik and Stuart. Thanks, these are both great pointers! -Brett. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Whither CERNLIB (, Paw, Geant3.21) in Debian? RFA / future plans

Hi Kevin, Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm seeking one or more people to take over maintenance of the following FORTRAN- and physics-related source packages. cfortran cernlib paw geant321 mclibs Definitely not me, but I do want to thank you for providing the Debian HEP

Re: Simple graphical software for manually plotting fractals?

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Suggestions? NETPBM (libnetpbm10-dev). This is C library which povides a very simple interface for manipulating bitmapped images at the pixel level. It treats the bitmaps as 2d arrays in memory and will let you output to many file formats

Re: Simple graphical software for manually plotting fractals?

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 15/10/2007, Brett Viren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Suggestions? NETPBM (libnetpbm10-dev). This is C library which povides a very simple interface for manipulating bitmapped images

Re: ROOT in Debian experimental

Christian Holm Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This makes ROOT the first major Linux distribution that ships ROOT as part of it's package list - beating even Scientific Linux. This makes *DEBIAN* the first major Linux distribution that ships ROOT as part of it's package list -

eukleides orphaned

I just saw on Debian Weekly News eukleides has been orphaned: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=419083 This is a great little 2D geometry calculator. If anyone is looking to pick up a package, I encourage them to consider this one. Cheers, -Brett. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Distributed filesystems in Debian

A short report since some expressed interest in getting any updates: I checked into the docs for Oracle's OCSF2 starting here http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/ Its userland is included in recent Debian and kernel modules in recent versions of Linux. It looks fairly straight-forward to set

Distributed filesystems in Debian

About a month ago the issue of distributed filesystems in Debian was raised here. Since then, has anyone had any experiences, good or bad? Personally, I am looking for a good way to serve 16 disks (8TB), split into two nodes to a cluster of 18 nodes. My requirements (or maybe better desires)

Re: Distributed filesystems in Debian

Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for making the coffee, patches are welcome :-) I have some, but they are written in Java. Groan, sorry, couldn't resist Thanks for the info. -Brett. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Distributed filesystems in Debian

Hi Sylvestre, Sylvestre Ledru [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It won't probably answer to all your requirements but I heard good experience about DRBD : http://www.drbd.org/ Thanks. This was suggested to me by another person and it does look like a useful tool for a high avilability filesystems.

Re: science soft mirror

slimane ben miled [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am using ubuntu 6.06, I would like to know if there is a mirror for scientific (maths +biology+bioinformatics) softs There are many scientific software packages in Debian, proper. http://packages.debian.org/stable/math/

Re: drawing of network: in search of a tool

Dirk Van Hertem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * nodes on specific coordinates * make connections between them according to the connections in my network * put a number and arrow next to the connections indicating the power flow * put a number next to every node (for voltages) * preferably a

Re: 7 new messages from ladies for you

marina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am looking for man for long-term relations Install the man-db package. And, please note, this question isn't debian-science related (what scientist has long term relations, except with their work?) so please direct further questions on this matter to

Re: Couple of naive questions

Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is another gap (from the same point of view) on unix systems: lack of a powerful free-form database. Relational, structures packages are too slow to use, I can't spend so much time in filling data. That is matter for an organization, even free

Re: Couple of naive questions

Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My first (naive) question is: am I too much ahead (in publishing tools) or are the editors in organic chemistry so much behind (in publishing tools)? Their use of DOC and yours of OpenOffice are certainly ahead time-wise but are both far behind

Re: Geant4 unofficial Debian package repository rearranged

Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, Geant4 release 8.2 has not yet been packaged. Not to give you pressure, but do you have an estimate when you might package it? Also, how difficult would it be to allow multiple versions to be installed, including the -dev and -header packages?

Re: Geant4 unofficial Debian package repository rearranged

Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brett Viren wrote: Also, how difficult would it be to allow multiple versions to be installed, including the -dev and -header packages? [ ... big snip ... ] Okay, wow. So, I guess to summarize the answer is very. It certainly sounds like way

ROOT even free'er

I see in ROOT's v5-14/00 release notes: http://root.cern.ch/root/Version514.news.html Core: - Cleanup of many ambiguous license statements, ROOT should now be in such a state that is passes the stringent Debian legal tests for OS software. -Brett. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How much interest in a debian-science.org repository?

Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I personally don't have anywhere to host such a repository. (My post-doc is up in April so I will probably lose the use of the machine currently hosting my Geant4 .debs.) Not to put words in his mouth, but I understand that Brett Viren has space

Re: exceptions in gnu c++

Paul, Run top -d 1 from another terminial before starting your program. It should show clearly the memory usage climbing if your code has a leak. Hit shift-M to sort by memory usage. If this is indeed the case I suggest that you recompile with -g and then run your program under valgrind to find

Re: cern software

Christian Holm Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scientific Linux comes it to variants - the FermiLab variant and the CERN variant. One can install vanilla SL which is just RHEL. But, that doesn't negate all the other problems with SL that were brought up. Besides them, SL doesn't

Re: cern software

Hi Matt, Matt Zagrabelny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My name is Matt Zagrabelny, I work as a Debian sysadmin for the University of Minnesota Duluth. We are looking at setting up a Beowulf Cluster for our Physics Department. They are advocating Scientific Linux (RedHat derivative), I am

Re: How much interest in a debian-science.org repository?

Alexander L. Belikoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am a lurker on this list, so please don't hit on me too hard for a possibly naiive question. I assume, this standalone repository is supposed to be a stopgap for packages before entering Debian official repository (and ultimately becoming part

Re: How much interest in a debian-science.org repository?

So, it seems there is much call for a debian-science unofficial repository. Great! A few things in response: 1) Distribution types. I think it is best to keep the standard main/non-free/contrib splitting. This splitting was invented to make clear the free-ness of the code and not the types of

Re: root on ppc: 403 forbiden

Hi Yannick, Yannick patois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Err http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov unstable/root root-common 5.09.01-7 403 Forbidden In the unstable/root/binary-powerpc area these packages are all actually broken symlinks to the pool area. science/root-common_5.09.01-7_all.deb

Re: IDL 6.2 under Debian sarge amd64

Mauricio Ortiz Calvao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Internal error: attempt to pop too many output funct % X windows protocol error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operat % X windows protocol error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window param % X windows protocol error: BadDrawable (invalid

Re: scripts that relies on $ROOTSYS

muzzle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a user of the ROOT packages available at http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root/ (btw thanks to the maintainers). I recently had to work with a lot of scripts and makefiles that relied heavily on ROOTSYS being set. Fortunately I could edit those scripts

Re: What is disclaiming a copyright ?

Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the meaning of the following ? Burkhard Morgenstern hereby disclaims all copyright interest in DIALIGN, written by Burkhard Morgenstern and Said Abdeddaim. I suspect that one of the copyright owners gives its rights to the other one,

Re: pdfscreen -- latex presentation viewer

Tim Connors [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Haven't used latex-beamer. Give it a try. Beamer + PGF for images and line art is a pretty powerful combination. There is a great example presentaion by Ki-Joo Kim that runs 200+ pages and shows many of the features.

Re: FORTRAN common blocks

Eric S Fraga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All arguments are passed by reference in Fortran. To be pedantic, only *explicit*, non-array arguments are passed by reference. For example, when passing a character string, the pointer is passed by value and there is an implicit string length which is

Environment variable management with usepackage (Was: Any interest in Debian packages of Geant 4?)

Christian Holm Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my humble opinion, wrapper scripts are ugly. That said, I could imagine that it would be the best solution (for now) to package GEANT 4 - it's a mess when it comes to environment variables. I agree. For non-Debian packages I use

Re: Debian's PAW should now work on AMD64 (also: OpenPAW)

Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In case it slipped past people's notice, I just wanted to mention that Cernlib's PAW data analysis program URL:http://packages.debian.org/paw should work OK on Debian/AMD64 Nice. One less reason to keep my cluster at 32 bits. On another note,

Re: xml as a scientific data format

Michael Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have any good references that make clear and good arguments for representing long sets of scientific (floating point) I think you need to give more description of what type and amount of data for people to give suggestions. - How much

Re: Debian based live chemoinformatics CD?

Egon Willighagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been thinking about live linux CDs to demo and easily setup a developers environment for... I've done similar for our collaboration using Debian based Morphix (www.morphix.org). It is designed explicitly to be used to build custom live CDs.

Debian mailing list conventions. (Was: Debian based live chemoinformatics CD?)

Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (and CCs to those who contributed to the thread already, as well as to Klaus and Ian re the LCC aspects below) The convention on Debian lists is to not CC people unless they explicitly ask for it. http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct

Re: python plotting with greek symbols within labels recommendations?

Michael Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: any thoughts on plotting libraries would be much appreciated. Root has a tex inspired language, actually very close to tex, that can be used to put Greek, equations and other tex-y things on Root plots. It is done through the TLatex class:

Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot

Hi Kevin, Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Out of curiosity (sorry for the sidetrack), why do you say unfortunately? You just don't like C++ being used as a scripting language, or some other reason? Yes, my snarky comment was mostly based on the design decision of using C++ as