root wrote:
> Colleagues,
> 
> There is a cross-fertilization that might be very useful for both
> the Scientific Linux world and the Sage world.
> 
> For those who don't know, Scientific Linux is a linux distribution
> that is a "common platform" for scientific users. It was recently
> described as:
> 
> Sage is an open source effort to create a free and open alternative
> to Mathematica, Maple, Magma, and Matlab.
> 
> It seems to me that the development of a standardized open source
> platform for science and scientific computation have quite common
> goals. Indeed, it could be argued quite strongly that this kind of
> a platform effort is a strong target for NSF, INRIA, or other major
> government funding.
> 
> I can answer some trivial questions about both projects but I am
> not a "contact person" for either project.
> 
> Tim Daly
> Axiom

Hi Tim,
That does look like an interesting program.  It's possible that many 
scientists would be interested in it.
Has someone already packaged it in an rpm that you know of?
Troy Dawson
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