My input: Case 4: Developer in a Large Organization

[Jimmy Dorff]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2013, Sergio Pascual wrote:
> Yes, this is importtant to me also. This is what seems closer to how workstations are used for scientific research.
> Tools for analysing data (R, Python, Perl, gnuplot, octave; also Matlab and IDL) and writing research papers (latex).
> With less interest in having the latest desktop and more interest in robustness, particullary in the tools used to do
> the work.

We've tried EL desktops, but for my users the tools are just too old. 
Fedora is a much better fit. I do have colleagues who rebuild vast numbers 
of packages from Fedora for EL to try to make it a better desktop.

Cheers,
Jimmy