Connie Sieh wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Michael Hannon wrote:
> 
>> Hi, folks.  I'm getting some inquiries about Ubuntu these days.  The
>> following, from one of our postdocs, is fairly typical:
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> We have asked may times for volunteers to help us put all of those 
> scientific applications into SL.  The only thing we ever get is "please 
> put in so.and.so".  We do not get "Yes, I will help you put in these 
> scientific applications".
> 
> We are only 2 people.  There are many who are doing debian.
> 
> Plus we have not had anyone request "axiom, singular or grace".  We have 
> asked the "root" developers to provide a rpm of "root" but I have not 
> seen it yet.  Note that it is different to make a rpm,  one has to tell 
> us that it exists so we can put it in.
> 
> There maybe some advance on this in the near future ,  depends on if a 
> project that we are working on actually moves forward.

Thanks, Connie.  I'd like to make it clear that I think that you and 
Troy do an amazing job, and I'm certainly not faulting you for not being 
able to do the work of 20 people.  But I DO get inquiries about Ubuntu, 
and I'd genuinely like to know how people in other SL environments are 
dealing with similar issues.

					- Mike
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