Urs Beyerle wrote: > Hi Al, > > Al Neumann wrote: >> [...] >> Just not really sure what SL has been doing... i.e: Where are those real >> >> scientific apps!!? >> Somewhat dismayed at the use of "scientific" in current SL. >> Al > > I know that's confusing. And it's the most frequently ask question about > SL -> https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/general1 > > Q. Where are all the 'science' programs? > Q. Is Scientific Linux better for scientific applications? > > A. This linux distribution is called Scientific Linux because it is made > by scientific labs, for scientific labs and universities. It is not > named Scientific Linux because it has the largest collection of > scientific programs. It was named back when it was small, and only the > scientific labs were using it. > > Cheers, > > Urs Hello Al, I would suggest enabling the dag repos to get some of the applications other distros have, including stellarium. This can be accomplished by editing /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo, and changing enabled=0 to enabled=1 If you want to see what sorts of packages are in this repo before enabling, you can browse them online here: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages.php or here: ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dag/redhat/el5/en/i386/dag/RPMS/ (the above URL won't contain any extra info on the packages, though) These are packages maintained as extra for various EL-variants such as centOS and Scientific Linux. Hope this makes your experience more akin to what you're used to! -Chris