On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Di Pe <dipeit@gmail.com> wrote: <snip>
Advantage Ubuntu --------------------------
* About 3x more binary packages are available for Ubuntu, including scientific applications.
From the science repo you can submit packages to Factory to become
I assume you are familiar with: https://build.opensuse.org/project/packages?project=science If you have anyone that could act as a maintainer, they can package and submit as many scientific packages as you want. If the quality of some of the packages is too poor for that repo, you could run a "home" repo of your own with whatever quality standards you want. (Legal issues still apply.) part of the next official release. Thus, potentially the biggest pro for openSUSE is that it is extremely easy for your team to join the active contributor team and get specific opensource software you need added to the distribution. (Note that only a subset of the online repos make it onto the DVD. That selection of packages for now is made by Novell employees, but getting into the online repos is relatively straight forward assuming quality standards are met.) Thus if you are willing to get involved, you can drive openSUSE to include all the opensource packages you need. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org