Hi Greg Being an Engineer, possible name for engineering packages would be Engineering or Physics, I would like to see Calculix/Calculix Graphix ( http://www.calculix.de/), OpenFOAM (http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/), BRLCAD (http://brlcad.org/d/) , Dakota (http://www.cs.sandia.gov/dakota/), Code Saturne, Syrthes, Salome Platform, ( http://research.edf.com/the-edf-offers/research-and-development/softwares-107001.html) Scilab, Octave/QtOctave/Octave Forge, Paraview (http://www.paraview.org/,9 GMSH ( http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/), Netgen, Code Aster ( http://www.code-aster.org/V2/spip.php?rubrique1), ....with these packages I guess a great deal of mechanical/civil structural engineering work can be done... And the name "Scientific Linux" would be fully justiified... :-) BRGDS Alex 2009/9/29 Markus Neteler <[log in to unmask]> > Hi Greg, > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 06:04, Greg Kurtzer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am working already to create a repository of scientific packages to > > integrate with SL. If there are special requests (or better yet, > > people that wish to help with packaging and maintenance), please let > > me know. > > > > We have some packages already in SCM (autobuilder hasn't been > > configured to build these yet), but it will still a bit before we can > > get these released (again, nudging for some volunteers with scientific > > app and RPM experience (or wanting to learn)). > > > > http://www.infiscale.org/scire/ > > it would be great to get GRASS GIS (requires GDAL and PROJ4) packaged > for ScientificLinux: > http://grass.osgeo.org/ > > In our community we receive often such request. I can help of course if > needed. > > Packaging notes are available at: > http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install > > Section would be "Geo". > > Best > Markus > > -- > Markus Neteler > Foundation Edmund Mach (FEM) - Research and Innovation Centre > Environment and Natural Resources Area > Head of GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Trento, Italy > Web: http://gis.fem-environment.eu/ > Email: neteler AT cealp.it > Book: http://www.grassbook.org/ >