From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: vadim@mail.cytspb.rssi.ru To: community-en@altlinux.org Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:33:29 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Comm-en] ALT for scientist (but not only) Message-ID: <3E54CB19.87.268982@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <3E53D77E.7010704@altlinux.ru> References: <3E514094.10962.255DC7@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body 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: > http://www.sai.msu.su/sal/ > >BTW, migration of (common, not physics/astronomers/ other computer- > >What is needed for example for a biologist - special distro, with excluded >Well, I suppose it is exactly ALT Linux Junior :-) >Perhaps there can be some additional CD for biologists I don't agree with you. LJ needs to be severely stripped, and made as compatible with current Windows soft as it is possible. Otherwise any good scientist will say - my aim is to study my object, not bash, make or gcc. But the humor of the situation is that make, gcc, etc should be in that imaginary "scienific distro", and not on the 2nd, but on the first disk! Or, even better, there should be Kylix (Open Edition, 3) on it! Scientists tend to use RAD tools when possible, you know. BTW. A compuler company that resides in the house I live will give a try to ALT Master 2.2 as soon as it will be out (guess who's "guilty" that they have chosen ALT :) over RH). They say price of ca. 1000 roubles is quite OK for corporate buyers from a small businesses if they only could replace Windows and MSOffice. Though in big companies (like Gazprom) VBA compatibility usually is needed. And I don't know whether OpenOffice.ru can run VBA macros ... I hope I will have a chance to look at 2.2 Master soon. //-------------------------------- A Linux newbie, Vadim Alexeenko, Institute of Cytology RAS