[seul-sci] sci linux

["T. Rashid" <tr211@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Norbert Irmer wrote:

> The idea sounds good, but is difficult to accomplish. Some Linux/Unix systems
> are using XFree86-3.6, others Xfree86-4.0, and often different incompatible
> versions of the GNU C compiler and the LIBC library are used too. And packages
> often require other packages, which are not included in the Linux distro (or
> at least in the wrong version).
> So you quite often download a big binary RPM of a program, which doesn't runs
> afterwards on your computer.

i have to disagree - the point of a scientific linux distro would do away
with this problem - the distro ITSELF would have its own xfree86 etc etc
so everything worked. thats the point - is it not? 

also - there's plenty of people out there with no internet connection and
who don't plan on having one - so everything on one CD is good - plus if
it cheap then we can convert people over who might just "try" the distro -
and if they need more specialisation as N. Irmer does - they can then go
on to do so. MOST PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT GOOD SCI APPS FOR LINUX EVEN
EXIST!!!!!!!!!