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This is an interesting development takes ahead currently. Inside the University of Szeged Sofware Development department has 2 hungarian developer who works on an spin called OSSMath.
Namely Janos Viragh és Zoltán Kovacs, and yes – they have chosen for base our beloved Fedora 13 (Goddard) distribution – and they taking very good advancing.
OSSMath targets to be the best mathematics software collection, targets engineering, and symbolic calculations – and it could be found an good quantity of famous educational softwares under KDE like: Geogebra, kig, Sage, axiom, Scilab.
But also contains OpenOffice, SMplayer, Chromium, Firefox too – beyond the science math target we receive an complete spin.
You want to try? Current version is the RC2 – this is only just for testing purposes.
But you could get it here.
I knew i was right with choosing Szeged as the point to start with Fedora´s Presence
They are awesome and Big Thanks Zoltan for keep Hungary going!!!
Hi Zoltán!
The final download link will be
http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/OSSMath
but right now you can reach the new RC from
http://matek.hu/tudastar/OSSMath-LiveDVD-RC3
oops!
the correct link is:
http://wmi.math.u-szeged.hu/OSSMath/OSSMath-LiveDVD-RC3/
Thanks for correcting me, hopefully I could add your compilation to my talk at the conference. See you there!
If all the packages used in OSSMath are packaged (or can be legally packaged) in Fedora, it may be worth asking if this can become an official Fedora spin – then you can have a shiny homepage on http://spins.fedoraproject.org, get marketing help from the Fedora Marketing Team, and so on. Drop me a line if this sounds like something you’d like to do, I’d be happy to help you get started.
Hi Mel!
OSSMath contains all the math-related stuff from F13 plus a few more “big apps”, eg. axiom, geogebra, sage and scilab compiled from the latest stable sources and installed (dumped
into /usr/local.
From the licensing point of view they could be in fedora (apart from a few problematic subpackages), but the creation of proper RPMs seems to be a tremendous task and there has been no real progress doing this, see eg.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/SciTech/Scilab
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/SciTech/SAGE