[Comm-en] ALT for scientist

[Aleksey Smirnov]

vadim at mail.cytspb.rssi.ru wrote:

>>>How about ALT LJ2.4 Science&Engineering edition :) ?
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>>3.0 it will be :)
>>We will need at least:
>>1. A head for such a project
>>2. Contributors to deal with
>>... and the most important thing - user's interest in it. 
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>No product->No interest->No product->.... :(
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>>If you can provide us any statistics concerning user's interest in such a
>>project - why not?
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>Well, IMHO until MS does not start any raids in the scientific institutes - there will be no 
>BIG interest. Just some people like me.
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Perhaps, the reason is, the most of scientific software is prepared in 
Universities, and is usually developped for Unix.

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>In all cases, what is needed - a distro that *easily replaces* MS programs most often 
>used. Junior is not such a distro. It's sad, but it is (of couse, "replaces", but not "easily"). 
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>MS presses the computer stores no to sell pirated windows, and if you can roll out 
>something like Lindows - one mail client, one office suite, maybe Kylix (activation key user 
>should obtain in Borland) - you will sell it better than hot dogs  near the high school at 
>noon. IMHO. My friends from computer company said they would seriously consider Linux 
>distho that complies to these requirements. And does not have any significant glitches. 
>And uses MS fonts w/o any extra overhead (the MS license allows the distribution of 
>Verdana, Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New).
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Please, give me the link to such a license.

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>Well,surely, after installation such a distro should allow the "root" to completely remove 
>itself. It's sad, but true.  95% of folks, I afraid, will use that tool to remove ALT and install 
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It is not enough :-)
I'd advise to use fdisk befor.

>the pirated Windows, but the rest will be yours - and may form a growth point. 
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>BTW - is it too hard to cooperate with some company thad writes financial software to 
>make  "Parus for Linux" or "Comtech for Linux"?  Goddamit, but Russ. Acad. Sci. requires 
>that RAS institutes use Parus for DOS!!! I was mad when our "glavbuch" told they are 
>moving (in Dec. 2002) their data from 1C for Windows to that crazy Parus for DOS...
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Yes, it is really very hard. We really do owr best, just have a look at 
the list of non-free software in the ALT Linux Master 2.2 description on 
our site.

I have read your article at nomicrosoft.ru. If you have looked into the 
manual before configuring, you should not try to look for russian 
localisation under root.

Aleksey