This sounds like a nice initiative. Still, I cannot help thinking: does it really solve the problem? In my experience, in several cases you need something more up-to-date than what a typical Linux distribution provides. For example, I found that the quite static, several-years-old snapshot of Texlive that Ubuntu provided at the time was not good enough for me and I ended up installing Texlive's own distribution with their tlmgr to keep it up to date. I am currently using Anaconda's Python distribution for the same reasons.
The point is that a specialised team taking care of one specific software product or collection seems naturally able to do this better than the team behind an entire Linux distribution which of course has a much wider range of software to worry about. I wonder if this might be the case for Fedora Scientific as well so that you would end up wanting to supplement your install with stand-alone software anyway? After all, it is really not very much work installing for example Anaconda Python or Texlive.
Just my thoughts... I wish the project the best of luck.
This sounds like a nice initiative. Still, I cannot help thinking: does it really solve the problem? In my experience, in several cases you need something more up-to-date than what a typical Linux distribution provides. For example, I found that the quite static, several-years-old snapshot of Texlive that Ubuntu provided at the time was not good enough for me and I ended up installing Texlive's own distribution with their tlmgr to keep it up to date. I am currently using Anaconda's Python distribution for the same reasons.
The point is that a specialised team taking care of one specific software product or collection seems naturally able to do this better than the team behind an entire Linux distribution which of course has a much wider range of software to worry about. I wonder if this might be the case for Fedora Scientific as well so that you would end up wanting to supplement your install with stand-alone software anyway? After all, it is really not very much work installing for example Anaconda Python or Texlive.
Just my thoughts... I wish the project the best of luck.