Wary of reinstalling all the essential tools for your scientific and numerical work? The answer is here. Fedora Scientific Spin brings together the most useful open source scientific and numerical tools atop the goodness of the KDE desktop environment.
Fedora Scientific currently ships with numerous applications and libraries. These range from libraries such as the GNU Scientific library, the SciPy libraries, tools like Octave and xfig to typesetting tools like Kile and graphics programs such as Inkscape. The current set of packages include an IDE, tools and libraries for programming in C, C++, Python, Java and R. Also included along with are libraries for parallel computing such as the OpenMPI and OpenMP. Tools for typesetting, writing and publishing are included.
IPython is an enhanced interactive shell with various features to support rapid interactive computing.
រៀនបន្ថែមMatplotlib is the most feature-rich Python library for creating publication ready graphs and figures.
រៀនបន្ថែមFedora Scientific includes the complete toolchain needed for creating documents using LaTeX.
រៀនបន្ថែមGNU Octave is a high level programming language and numerical computing environment, mostly compatible with MATLAB.
រៀនបន្ថែមThe GNU Scientific Library is a C/C++ library providing a extensive collection of mathematical routines.
រៀនបន្ថែមUsers and developers are available in the #fedora-science IRC channel on irc.libera.chat for real-time chat.
Users and developers are also available on the mailing list at scitech@lists.fedoraproject.org.
Specific documentation is available at the Fedora Scientific Guide.
Sometimes you may encounter an issue with this spin that you can get help with using general Fedora support resources. A list of resources is available at the Fedora Get Help page.