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Thursday, January 26, 2012

What is Fedora Scientific?

Open Source Scientific Computing.


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Wary of reinstalling all your favourite numerical tools everytime your reinstall Linux? The answer is here. Fedora Scientific Spin brings together the open source scientific and numerical tools used in research along with the goodness of the Fedora KDE desktop.

Fedora Scientific currently ships with numerous applications and libraries. These range from libraries such as the GNU Scientific library, the SciPy libraries, tools like Octave and xfig to typesetting tools like Kile and graphics programs such as Inkscape. The current set of packages include an IDE, tools and libraries for programming in C, C++, Python, Java and R. Also included along with are libraries for parallel computing such as the OpenMPI and OpenMP. Tools for typesetting, writing and publishing are included. The full list of software made available by the spin is available here.

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