Re: Fedora Scientific Spin

2014-01-19 Thread David Sommerseth
On 16/01/14 04:58, Andrew Z wrote: I guess im missing something tonight. So back to my question - why not to have a group of scientific apps in installer ? Whats the advantage of having a separate iso for the os? Say in fedora the scientific apps will be latest git versions and on el level -

Re: Fedora Scientific Spin

2014-01-19 Thread zxq9
On Sunday 19 January 2014 20:17:38 David Sommerseth wrote: On 16/01/14 04:58, Andrew Z wrote: I guess im missing something tonight. So back to my question - why not to have a group of scientific apps in installer ? Whats the advantage of having a separate iso for the os? Say in fedora

Re: Fedora Scientific Spin

2014-01-16 Thread Larry Linder
We use SL 5.10 and SL6.4 in a commercial company. The stability is the obvious reason. We do not want or need the latest features that clutter the landscape. If SL were to link up with or even consider Fedora - we would abandon it. No one in their right mind would use a sand box as quoted

Re: Fedora Scientific Spin

2014-01-15 Thread Andrew Z
Would not it be sufficient to have a scientific applications group in the installer? On Jan 15, 2014 7:29 PM, Jean-Victor Côté jean-v.c...@sympatico.ca wrote: They have included interesting IDEs: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scientific_Spin Collaboration between the two projects might prove

Re: Fedora Scientific Spin

2014-01-15 Thread Yasha Karant
On 01/15/2014 04:36 PM, Andrew Z wrote: Would not it be sufficient to have a scientific applications group in the installer? On Jan 15, 2014 7:29 PM, Jean-Victor Côté jean-v.c...@sympatico.ca mailto:jean-v.c...@sympatico.ca wrote: They have included interesting IDEs:

RE: Fedora Scientific Spin

2014-01-15 Thread Andrew Z
: ykar...@csusb.edu To: scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov Subject: Re: Fedora Scientific Spin On 01/15/2014 04:36 PM, Andrew Z wrote: Would not it be sufficient to have a scientific applications group in the installer? On Jan 15, 2014 7:29 PM, Jean-Victor Côté jean-v.c

RE: Fedora Scientific Spin

2014-01-15 Thread Paul Robert Marino
...@csusb.edu To: scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov Subject: Re: Fedora Scientific Spin On 01/15/2014 04:36 PM, Andrew Z wrote: Would not it be sufficient to have a "scientific applications" group in the installer? On Jan 15, 2014 7:29 PM, "Jean-Victor Côté" jean-v.c...@sympatico.

RE: Fedora Scientific Spin

2014-01-15 Thread Andrew Z
to understand On Jan 15, 2014 10:50 PM, Jean-Victor Côté jean-v.c...@sympatico.ca wrote: With a very real solution: http://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/ Jean-Victor Côté -- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 22:45:45 -0500 Subject: RE: Fedora Scientific Spin From: form