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Science Tools for GNU-Darwin Dr. Michael L. Love,
updated Tue Aug 26 13:27:53 EDT 2008 Updates:


Mol...@GN...






The Distribution is shepherding Mol...@GN..., a repository
of over 4 million small molecule structural coordinate files in PDB
format, which is accessible by FOSS molecule viewer software that is
provided by the Distro, such as PyMOL and RasMOL. over 50 million
structures are in the pipe. Mol...@GN... demonstrates the
kind of great work that can be done in the scientific and education
fields with GNU-Darwin OS and free and open source software. There are
also some notes about the package set and Molecules machine. Molecules
of the Day has an RSS News Feed:


GNU-Darwin hard media




Key scientific software packages are now available on our Office and
Package discs. Favorite free software titles, first packaged for Darwin
and Mac OS X by the Distribution, are included such as VIM,
Ghostscript, Gnumeric, LaTeX, PyMOL (screenshot shown bottom left),
Rasmol, gdFortran, LAM/MPI, AbiWord, GNUplot, and Raster3D. All are
available for both x86 (Intel, AMD) and ppc (PowerPC) Darwin-only and
Mac OS X systems. Worry-free open source and command line installation
is provided, and binary software distribution means that no compiling
is necessary. Easy access to updates is also provided via our automated
download system (ppc, x86).
As the premier free software distribution (founded Nov, 2000) for
Darwin and Mac OS X, GNU-Darwin is clearly reliable with demonstrated
stability and time-tested persistence. Our mature toolset has been
successfully used for facilities administration, internet services,
digital media production, intensive scientific calculation (see left
center), authoring papers and progress reports (screenshot shown left
top), high resolution graphics production, and all in a state of
publication quality. With the assistance of a large open source
development community, GNU-Darwin anticipates the needs of our users,
and future Darwin utilities are provided in the present. GNU-Darwin is
expressly engineered for high profile enterprises and cutting-edge
scientific applications, but it is also suitable for workstation use
and free software afficionados as well. Only with these discs, will
users be up and running fast and getting real work done with all the
desired tools, both now and in the future.
via gnu-darwin.org
The molecules site has become a large presence on the web, and there is
much in store for the future. It is a huge vindication for me, and a
demonstration of what can be done with GNU-Darwin. For more examples,
be sure and check the screenshots page.

http://www.gnu-darwin.org/index.php?page=screenshots

Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

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