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Hello there! I am Amit Saha. ([http://echorand.me]). I shall summarize my efforts in the Fedora community on my wiki page at [[Amitksaha]]
Hello there! I am Amit Saha. ([http://echorand.me]). I shall summarize my efforts in the Fedora community on this page.
 
 
== Fedora Scientific Spin ==
 
I am a long-term Linux user and have been into full-time scientific research for the past 3 years now. Everytime I have to do a fresh-install of Linux (not so frequently, ofcourse), I have to download a bunch of tools which I use regularly. For example, gnuplot, xfig, LaTex compilers, numpy, etc.
 
How cool would it be to have a Linux distro which already had these installed? Say hello to Fedora-Scientific
 
'''Update #1:''' June, 24 - 2011
 
I finally started acting on this idea of mine with an email to the rel-eng list [[http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/rel-eng/2011-May/012251.html]].
 
After discussions on the mailing list with Bill Nottingham, I proposed a patch to the comps-f16-xml.in file [[http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=comps.git;a=commitdiff;h=ebfe294e32736a3e3386ee9c55ffb7386821b902]].
 
I already have the kickstart file ready for this one, which I shall post to the mailing list soon, once I have tested my ISO. It currently stands at 1.1 G.
 
== Fedora Resources ==
[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_a_Live_CD Creating a Fedora Live CD]
 
[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CustomSpins Fedora Custom Spins]
 
[http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ Nightly Rawhide Builds]
 
== Contact ==
 
droidery@gmail.com (I am more of an email/mailing list person rather than IRC.)

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Hello there! I am Amit Saha. ([1]). I shall summarize my efforts in the Fedora community on this page.


Fedora Scientific Spin

I am a long-term Linux user and have been into full-time scientific research for the past 3 years now. Everytime I have to do a fresh-install of Linux (not so frequently, ofcourse), I have to download a bunch of tools which I use regularly. For example, gnuplot, xfig, LaTex compilers, numpy, etc.

How cool would it be to have a Linux distro which already had these installed? Say hello to Fedora-Scientific

Update #1: June, 24 - 2011

I finally started acting on this idea of mine with an email to the rel-eng list [[2]].

After discussions on the mailing list with Bill Nottingham, I proposed a patch to the comps-f16-xml.in file [[3]].

I already have the kickstart file ready for this one, which I shall post to the mailing list soon, once I have tested my ISO. It currently stands at 1.1 G.

Fedora Resources

Creating a Fedora Live CD

Fedora Custom Spins

Nightly Rawhide Builds

Contact

droidery@gmail.com (I am more of an email/mailing list person rather than IRC.)