Hello:
On 28/05/11 10:03, Amit Saha wrote:
Hello Bill:
On 05/28/2011 12:38 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Amit Saha (droidery(a)gmail.com) said:
>> Hello!
>>
>> As an effort to avoid installing the same packages (like latex, emacs,
>> gnuplot..) everytime I do a fresh install of a Linux distro, I decided
>> to create a Fedora spin to cater the users who use Linux as their main
>> workstation to help them in their research.
>>
>> The software tools used is very much subjective, being determined by the
>> field of research one is in. So, at this point here are some of the
>> packages that is there in my spin (These have been mostly determined by
>> my own field of research which is numerical simulation driven):
>>
>> <packages>
>>
>> #Languages, Libraries and tools
>> gcc
>> gsl
>> gsl-devel
>> boost
>> octave
>> scipy
>> python-matplotlib
>>
>>
>> #writing and plotting
>> texmaker # will install tex-live and associated utils
>> gnuplot
>> emacs
>> emacs-color-theme
>> nano
>> vim
>>
>> </packages>
>>
>> and some other misc. utils. These packages are added to the default
>> Fedora 15 desktop packages i.e. with GNOME 3. As of now the ISO size is
>> 1.1G and takes ~4G in the Live environment.
>>
>> I see from [1] that a Fedora "Spin for Science" is in the Ideas
section.
>> It would be great to get your feedback on this project. I would like to
>> work towards its acceptance/validation as pointed out
>> in [2] -- by adding extra packages and anything else.
>>
>> Any thoughts/comments/suggestions appreciated.
>
> Seems like a generally reasonable idea. I'd suggest iterating with
> the SciTech SIG over what they'd like to see in a spin, if you haven't
> already.
Thanks for showing interest. Before I emailed Rel-eng, I had emailed the
the SciTech SIG list. Soon after, I saw on the mailman page that the
mailing list was de-activated. It would ofcourse be great to co-ordinate
with this SIG for this effort. Would there be a contact person?
>
> With respect to the composition, I would suggest maybe seeing if you
> could frame it in terms of the groups we already have (engineeirng&
> scientific, development), more than in terms of just packages. For
> Fedora 16, we can certainly adjust the groups where necessary.
Yes, that is what I initially intended to do. Let me check this up and
report my findings.
At this point of time, it doesn't look like I can use any of the
existing package groups to design the kickstart file (except the ones I
include from -desktop.ks).
Current packages in "Engineering and Scientific" group can be split into
sub-groups: math, chemistry, physics, biology, geographic,distributed,
parallel and generic packages. Quite exhaustive! (If such a sub-division
sounds like a good idea, I can do that.)
My goal in creating a Fedora Scientific spin is however to create a
"base" level scientific spin which can be used by anyone working in
research so that he/she already has the minimum writing, plotting,
experimenting tools available when he/she starts. The current kickstart
file can be seen at [1]. The ISO file stands at 1.2 G.
I shall look forward to your feedback on this.
[1]
https://bitbucket.org/amitksaha/custom_linux/src/216b23bbca0c/fedora-live...
Regards,
Amit
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