Christopher Hunter wrote:
Hi,
Hey Chris,
Welcome on board! Sorry for the delay of my response, I've just spotted
your mail now.
I trolled on at the last IRC meeting for Fedora SIG Astronomy. I
should
make a better introduction. My name is Chris Hunter, I am with IT
support for astronomy & astrophysics at yale university, in connecticut
usa. Our department has ~100 linux machines; 70 which are desktop
workstations for faculty, students & research staff. We also support
workstations at astronomical observatories in the usa and south america.
We use linux because most research software has a history of starting in
a UNIX environment. Our current platform of choice is scientific linux
(
www.scientificlinux.org); close second is OS X. We additionally use ESO
"scisoft" research software packages (
www.eso.org/scisoft).
Interesting, anyone who wish to try to port it for Fedora? I believe
it's not easy, maybe we can do it for Fedora 10.
We are evaluating alternate platforms that will provide support for
new
projects such as "Virtual Observatory" tools (typically java based or
SOA). A key decision factor will be how easily we can incorporate
"non-free", or academic licenced software into local installations.
I'm interested in fedora-astronomy, since fedora will give us bleeding
edge hardware support and looks provide packaging of popular
astronomical research software.
Nice to have your here, please come to our next meeting :) do you have
any experience with packaging?
Regards,
--
Marek Mahut
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy/
Fedora Project
http://www.jamendo.com/