Troy, I recommend you talk to William Stein. He's the project lead. I follow both Scientific Linux and Sage but am not a contributor to either. But I think that FNAL and other labs would be the ideal target audience for a Sage system. Tim >> 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 >__________________________________________________ >Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 >Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group >__________________________________________________