New distro question

[Kevin D. Clark]

Labitt, Bruce writes:

> I realize this is / was / will be a religious argument, but I'm having
> trouble with this distribution of Centos on my computer.  I was
> wondering if there was a distro more up to date and was suited for
> scientific calculations.
> 
> I'm familiar with FC6, due to a myth install (thanks Jarod, Ben et al)
> so I would not mind installing FC8.

On my Fedora8 box I see:

# yum search scientific | sort -u
asymptote.i386 : Descriptive vector graphics language
blitz.i386 : C++ class library for matrix scientific computing
boinc-client.i386 : The BOINC client core
dx.i386 : Open source version of IBM's Visualization Data Explorer
galculator.i386 : GTK 2 based scientific calculator
gcalctool.i386 : A desktop calculator
gnuplot.i386 : A program for plotting mathematical expressions and data
grads.i386 : Tool for easy acces, manipulation, and visualization of data
gsl-devel.i386 : Static libraries and header files for GSL development
gsl.i386 : The GNU Scientific Library for numerical analysis
hdf5.i386 : A general purpose library and file format for storing scientific data
hdf.i386 : A general purpose library and file format for storing
scientific data
kdeutils.i386 : K Desktop Environment - Utilities
LabPlot.i386 : Data Analysis and Visualization
latex2html.noarch : Converts LaTeX documents to HTML
libctl.i386 : Guile-based support for flexible control files
libscigraphica.i386 : A library of gtk+ widgets for SciGraphica
Loading "priorities" plugin
ncarg-devel.i386 : A Fortran and C based software package for scientific visualization
ncarg.i386 : A Fortran and C based software package for scientific visualization
nco.i386 : Suite of programs for manipulating NetCDF/HDF4 files
netcdf.i386 : Libraries for the Unidata network Common Data Form (NetCDF v3)
netcdf-perl.i386 : Perl extension module for scientific data access via the netCDF API
openbabel.i386 : Chemistry software file format converter
OpenSceneGraph.i386 : High performance real-time graphics toolkit
orpie.i386 : A fullscreen console-based RPN calculator
perl-Math-Pari.i386 : Perl interface to PARI
perl-PDL.i386 : The Perl Data Language
plotmm.i386 : GTKmm plot widget for scientific applications
plotutils.i386 : GNU vector and raster graphics utilities and libraries
plplot-gnome.i386 : Functions for scientific plotting with GNOME
plplot.i386 : Library of functions for making scientific plots
plplot-java.i386 : Functions for scientific plotting with Java
plplot-octave.i386 : Functions for scientific plotting with Octave
plplot-tk.i386 : Functions for scientific plotting with Tk
plplot-wxGTK.i386 : Functions for scientific plotting with wxGTK
pydot.noarch : Python interface to Graphviz's Dot language
pygsl.i386 : GNU Scientific Library Interface for python
q.i386 : Equational programming language
ScientificPython-devel.i386 : The development files for
ScientificPython
ScientificPython-doc.i386 : Documentation and examples for
ScientificPython
ScientificPython.i386 : A collection of Python modules that are useful for scientific computing
ScientificPython-qt.i386 : The Qt widgets from ScientificPython
ScientificPython-tk.i386 : The tk widgets from ScientificPython
scigraphica.i386 : Scientific application for data analysis and technical graphics
scipy.i386 : Scipy: Scientific Tools for Python
stix-fonts-integrals.noarch : STIX scientific and engineering fonts, additional integral glyphs
stix-fonts.noarch : STIX scientific and engineering fonts
stix-fonts-pua.noarch : STIX scientific and engineering fonts, PUA glyphs
stix-fonts-sizes.noarch : STIX scientific and engineering fonts, additional glyph sizes
stix-fonts-variants.noarch : STIX scientific and engineering fonts, additional glyph variants
TeXmacs.i386 : Structured wysiwyg scientific text editor
veusz.i386 : GUI scientific plotting package


Hey, as long as it has Fortran, it's a scientific machine, right?  (-:

Regards,

--kevin
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