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This is an old revision of DesktopScientific made by BenoitAudouard on 2006-07-26 02:51:11.

 

Desktop Scientific

Scientific people mainly use Unix for their batch, maybe a GNU/Linux workstation would be more efficient ?

Study of what already exists

- http://www.caelinux.com/ adds salome and Code_Aster to a live-cd for CAE (computer aided engineering) see CAELinuxSuggestions for other suggestions (mainly in physic)
- https://www.scientificlinux.org/ a RHEL 4 for scientific peoples (mainly a dedicated bootsplash + specific packages (openafs, mp3)
- an interview with users seems required to identify requirements and usages

the context

take into account the requirements for
- biologist
- physicists
- chimist
Proceed with interviews about what they daily use (shared disk space ? document formats ? latex for formulaes ? any editor they are fond of be it vim or emacs or nano ?
perhaps provide users with a dedicated bootsplash ?
Take into account the admin requirements : manage easily installation, take into account business requirements (deploy easily new software, even if not yet packaged)

advantages of GNU/Linux

- an efficient operating system, immediate interoperability with servers
- a set of packages immediately available
- the possibility to contribute packages to a distribution (which greatly eases the work of the workstation administrators)
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