[clug] Request for Ideas/Suggestions: Fedora Scientific Spin

[Brad Hards]

On Sunday 03 July 2011 13:31:45 Amit Saha wrote:
> It would be of great help if the interested ones among you suggest some
> generic tools for numerical computing/scientific research that you find
> really useful which is not already included in the list of packages in
> the above wiki page.
I note gcc in the list, but a C++ compiler might also be useful. Maybe MPI.

If you're doing anything other than the most trivial code, then a DVCS (or 
several - git, bzr, hg) probably should be there too. Perhaps a GUI for the 
DVCS.

Depending on how you see research, perhaps something for document management 
(e.g. bibliography, perhaps some kind of tool to stash PDFs of reference 
papers) might be useful.

Brad