First, I guess I should say I’m back. I’ll discuss the details in another thread. In my recent sabbatical, I installed Gentoo. I got quite good at Gentoo to. But there were some issues that irritated me. I then gave *buntu a try. Over all quite good. One thing I have noticed though, is that with Gentoo and *buntu there is a lot more software for math and science. Using a package called “dmaths” for libreoffice gives some nice extended abilities. This “dmaths” is not in the openSUSE repos. I already checked the wiki and the closest I can find is; http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Science_Math which is still so much more limited than the other distros. Am I missing something? By the way, I am running openSUSE 13.1
On another topic, it might be fun to 1) get portage working on openSUSE and 2) integrate it into YaST. I don’t see it being to complicated since portage is python. If you all remember, I was able to integrate smart package manager into YaST.
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Even with out the libreoffice extension, there are still a lot of physics and mathematic packages that openSUSE doesn’t have and other distros do. In my opinion, this is one area where openSUSE need some attention, especially since there is openSUSE Education. You’d think that the Education repo would contain more, and while it does contain more than the base distro, it’s still not even close to other distros.
On 2014-05-14, Jonathan R <Jonathan_R@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Even with out the libreoffice extension, there are still a lot of
> physics and mathematic packages that openSUSE doesn’t have and other
> distros do. In my opinion, this is one area where openSUSE need some
> attention, especially since there is openSUSE Education. You’d think
> that the Education repo would contain more, and while it does contain
> more than the base distro, it’s still not even close to other distros.
As a scientist, I’d say openSUSE, with the Science repo added, fulfils almost all my needs. But I’m suprised if a
mathematician or physicist is using LibreOffice rather than LaTeX/TeX!
On 2014-05-14, pier andreit <pier_andreit@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> …I know a lot of physicists that use msoffice and libreoffice…
> …but, is there a science repo??? interesting…
sh-4.2$ su -
sh-4.2$ zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_13.1/ "science"
sh-4.2$ exit
The science repo sorta helped. I wish there were more apps for diffeq’s and linear algebra, and so on. Now I have the dubious task of learning these various apps. I fancy myself as a theoretical physicist hobbyist. My lab is my mind. Now I gotta get my math caught up with my physics.
On 2014-05-15, Jonathan R <Jonathan_R@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> The science repo sorta helped. I wish there were more apps for diffeq’s
> and linear algebra, and so on.
Do you really mean `app’ or programming language? The BLAS/LAPACK/MINPACK/fftw libraries have wrappers for most
languages (e.g. Octave, Ruby, Python, etc…). If you mean an IDE, then you’ll find some in the science repo; for
example if you use scientific Python you might want to try Spyder.
On 2014-05-18 05:36, Jonathan R wrote:
>
> The extensions in libreoffice was just an example, not the point.
>
> With out looking at ppa’s or overlays, I can’t be entirely sure. Do
> remember, I was into Gentoo for several months, and *buntu for maybe a
> month.
Well, you could give a list of what applications you miss. Perhaps they
are on different repos, if not perhaps they can be added.
Also, if you think that there are interesting extensions to libreoffice
that could be packaged with the distro, well, I guess you can drop the
idea to the LO packagers, too.
