[SciPy-User] Ubuntu vs Fedora for scientific work?

Tue Aug 4 01:27:12 EDT 2009

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 03:24:19PM -0500, Dharhas Pothina wrote:
> Recently, I've noticed that a lot of scientific packages now have ubuntu repositories and even the intel compiler has an ubuntu option. So I'm trying to decide whether to go with Fedora 11 or Ubuntu Jaunty. 

If you want ready-to-install packages, my experience is that you will get
more with Ubuntu. That's a big deal to me: I don't want to be offering
compilation support to my friends and colleagues.

Gaël