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Mandriva Linux is a fantastic scientific platform
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| StÃphane TELETCHEA is working in a french
| research laboratory. He is also contributing
| to Mandriva Linux as a tester and packager
| for some years now. Below is his testimony in
| Mandriva Linux use for his daily work.
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| We started using Mandriva Linux (Mandriva at
| that time) in the laboraty for the great
| combination of an ease of use and a very
| strong development platform. At that time I
| was a starting my PhD and trying to migrate
| from aging SGI Indigo 2 to more powerful
| standard PC-based computers. I did test other
| distributions at that time but Mandriva was
| the only one offering a lot of scientific
| applications (one that comes to my mind is
| XmGrace). Perl/bioperl, python, fortran, gcc
| and libc stacks were and are still very up-
| to-date but functional as if they were tested
| for years. This very good combination of
| stability and recent releases also helped
| some colleagues in improving their programs
| (for instance with the stricter checks coming
| in c++ in the gcc 4 series). This stability
| was also very appreciated while writing my
| PhD thesis where LyX and Pybliographer, on
| top of the Tetex stack, showed no crash
| leading to text loss. The pressure was
| sufficiently high in other domains to
| appreciate this part (those using Word or
| even Writer can not understand the beauty of
| (La)TeX).
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http://blog.mandriva.com/2010/06/03/mandriva-is-a-fantastic-scientific-platform/
Recent:
Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring RC2
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| As announced previously, here comes the last
| development release for Mandriva Linux 2010
| Spring. This is essentially a bug fix release.
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http://blog.mandriva.com/2010/06/02/mandriva-linux-2010-spring-rc2/
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