Hello Joachim,
you're welcome! Nice to see other astrophysicists from Germany here :)
I'm working on classification problems (mostly variable stars) using
modern machine learning algorithms.
Do you already know our Special Interest Groups:
Hello everybody,
I am a physicist from Germany. I began using GNU/Linux as my main OS back in 1998
starting with Red Hat Linux 5.0 and going through every single iteration of Red Hat Linux
and Fedora ever since. Throughout these years I have contributed to Fedora mainly through
postings to various Red Hat mailing lists and by reporting numerous bugs to the Red Hat
Bugzilla.
In the context of my research in the fields of theoretical relativistic astrophysics and
numerical relativity I have been using Fedora for
numerical simulations, data analysis, and visualization but also for writing scientific
publications or presentations.
A very popular plotting package used by the astrophysics community is PGPLOT [1] which,
however, is not open source and therefore only available through the RPMFUSION project
[2]. An open source and modern alternative which aims at becoming a full replacement of
the former is and suitable for adoption by Fedora is the GIZA library [3]. I have started
contributing to the upstream project earlier this year and recently converted the source
package from using a proprietary make system to using GNU Autotools. I have now packaged a
tentative Fedora package of the latest release giza-0.9.4 and submitted it for package
review. The corresponding review request can be found at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187030
I further hope that adoption by the Fedora Project would help to increase GIZA's user
base and thus speed up the development process through bug reports, user requests, and
direct contributions to the code base.
Cheers
Joachim Frieben
[1]
www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/
[2]
http://www.rpmfusion.org
[3]
http://giza.sf.net
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