From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <3E53E1CD.4000708@altlinux.ru> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:58:05 +0300 From: Aleksey Smirnov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: community-en@altlinux.org Subject: Re: [Comm-en] ALT for scientist References: <3E514C5B.20817.5360DA@localhost> <3E515A46.3750.89C0F1@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3E515A46.3750.89C0F1@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.70.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: community-en-admin@altlinux.org Errors-To: community-en-admin@altlinux.org X-BeenThere: community-en@altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: community-en@altlinux.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: vadim@mail.cytspb.rssi.ru wrote: >>>How about ALT LJ2.4 Science&Engineering edition :) ? >>> >>> >>3.0 it will be :) >>We will need at least: >>1. A head for such a project >>2. Contributors to deal with >>... and the most important thing - user's interest in it. >> >> > >No product->No interest->No product->.... :( > > > >>If you can provide us any statistics concerning user's interest in such a >>project - why not? >> >> > >Well, IMHO until MS does not start any raids in the scientific institutes - there will be no >BIG interest. Just some people like me. > Perhaps, the reason is, the most of scientific software is prepared in Universities, and is usually developped for Unix. > >In all cases, what is needed - a distro that *easily replaces* MS programs most often >used. Junior is not such a distro. It's sad, but it is (of couse, "replaces", but not "easily"). > >MS presses the computer stores no to sell pirated windows, and if you can roll out >something like Lindows - one mail client, one office suite, maybe Kylix (activation key user >should obtain in Borland) - you will sell it better than hot dogs near the high school at >noon. IMHO. My friends from computer company said they would seriously consider Linux >distho that complies to these requirements. And does not have any significant glitches. >And uses MS fonts w/o any extra overhead (the MS license allows the distribution of >Verdana, Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New). > Please, give me the link to such a license. > >Well,surely, after installation such a distro should allow the "root" to completely remove >itself. It's sad, but true. 95% of folks, I afraid, will use that tool to remove ALT and install > It is not enough :-) I'd advise to use fdisk befor. >the pirated Windows, but the rest will be yours - and may form a growth point. > >BTW - is it too hard to cooperate with some company thad writes financial software to >make "Parus for Linux" or "Comtech for Linux"? Goddamit, but Russ. Acad. Sci. requires >that RAS institutes use Parus for DOS!!! I was mad when our "glavbuch" told they are >moving (in Dec. 2002) their data from 1C for Windows to that crazy Parus for DOS... > Yes, it is really very hard. We really do owr best, just have a look at the list of non-free software in the ALT Linux Master 2.2 description on our site. I have read your article at nomicrosoft.ru. If you have looked into the manual before configuring, you should not try to look for russian localisation under root. Aleksey