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.
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.
Bill