Idea
#4350: Scibuntu: Ubuntu for Scientists
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Written by Arioch the 12 Mar 08 at 09:09.
Category: Others.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
I work in Science. What about a fully featured flavour of Ubuntu filled with computational soft, programing tools, graphical representation capabilities, scientific text editing, publication database control...etc
That would make scientists life much more easy and would promote migration from W$ and OS systems to Ubuntu.
Temptative name: Scibuntu--Linux for Scientists
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shovelhead wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 10:13
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So you want Emacs, Latex, Lyx and what else from the Repositories?
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Arioch wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 10:33
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That's an oldfashion concept of modern sciences.
Nowadays, the scientific community is prompted to much more powerful plotting and editing capabilities than those provided by Emacs, Latex,...etc.
Also, more friendly GUIs are required.
We need for example a Matlabs analog (Scilab is an good option though). Several programing and scripting tools are also welcomed (eclipse, anjuta, etc...).
Editing with Scribus, inkscape, Gimp...etc
I would also propose to get rid of useless soft installed by default.
Furthermore, an optimized kernel for parallel computing (both beowuld and openmosix-like architectures) would be a requirement due to the large computing capabilities needed for Scientific computing.
It is indeed a brand new field for Ubuntu to expand if a flavour like edubuntu or Ubuntu Studio is available.
There are many more features worth commenting on. Suggestions??
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Auzy wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 13:15
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Once again, where does this specialised distro thing stop?
Then we will end up with one for graphics artists, programmers, security experts/forensics, sales, commerce, etc..
Its better just to make a metapackage with a bunch of scientific packages, and make it easy to access..
-1. Not sure it needs a whole distro.
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cheesehead wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 15:30
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No need for a seperate distro. Consider a meta-package instead.
If you want to create your own custom distro for your organization, go ahead - all the tools you need are available via Synaptic.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 22:09
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Just make a script that install stuff.
$ sudo apt-get install scilab anjuta eclipse graphviz chemkit bkchem chemtool kalzium numpy gravit scipy xdrawchem
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steve196 wrote on the 7 Apr 08 at 20:21
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I think, Scientists' needs are too diverse. And scientists usually know, what program they need by name.
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jespdj wrote on the 25 Sep 08 at 14:38
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Why do so many people propose new Ubuntu-based distros? Scibuntu, Thisbuntu, Thatbuntu, Grandmabuntu, Kidbuntu, Dogbuntu, Catbuntu, ... Whateverbuntu.
There are already so many variants of Ubuntu. Do you really need a separate distro, or can you just use the standard distro and install the programs you need?
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