[release-notes] Updates to Scientific and Technical
John J. McDonough
jjmcd at fedoraproject.org
Tue Sep 7 12:54:07 UTC 2010
commit 19b0ca8d402558e7713a8fd7f3bf690b95392ac7
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd at fedoraproject.org>
Date: Tue Sep 7 08:52:26 2010 -0400
Updates to Scientific and Technical
o Changed formatting to match other sections
o Added ROOT
o Alphabetized sections
en-US/Scientific_and_Technical.xml | 267 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 126 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Scientific_and_Technical.xml b/en-US/Scientific_and_Technical.xml
index 0c617c4..55c4427 100644
--- a/en-US/Scientific_and_Technical.xml
+++ b/en-US/Scientific_and_Technical.xml
@@ -7,60 +7,82 @@
<section id="sect-Release_Notes-Scientific_and_Technical">
<title>Scientific and Technical</title>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Asymptote</title>
<para>
- <indexterm><primary>weka</primary></indexterm>
- <package>Weka</package> is a collection of machine learning
- algorithms for data mining tasks. The algorithms can either be
- applied directly to a dataset or called from your own Java
- code. Weka contains tools for data pre-processing,
- classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and
- visualization. It is also well-suited for developing new
- machine learning schemes. Weka has been updated to version
- 3.2.6-4 with important bug fixes.
+ <indexterm><primary>asymptote</primary></indexterm>
+ <package>Asymptote</package> is a powerful descriptive vector
+ graphics language for technical drawings, inspired by MetaPost
+ but with an improved C++-like syntax. Asymptote provides for
+ figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX
+ does for scientific text. Labels and equations are typeset
+ with LaTeX, for high-quality PostScript output. Fedora-14
+ includes version-2.04 with many bug fixes. Files generated in
+ in-line tex mode can now be renamed without editing their
+ contents.
</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Extrema</title>
<para>
- <indexterm><primary>mrpt-apps</primary></indexterm>
- The <package>Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT:
- mrpt-apps)</package> is an extensive, cross-platform, and open
- source C++ library aimed to help robotics researchers to
- design and implement algorithms in the fields of Simultaneous
- Localization and Mapping (SLAM), computer vision, and motion
- planning (obstacle avoidance). The latest version 0.9.0-0.5
- has been rebuilt against wxGTK-2.8.11-2. The rebuild was
- necessitated by the new version of Opencv.
+ <indexterm><primary>extrema</primary></indexterm>
+ <package>Extrema</package> is a powerful visualization and
+ data analysis tool that enables researchers to quickly distill
+ their large, complex data sets into meaningful
+ information. Its flexibility, sophistication, and power allow
+ you to easily develop your own commands and create highly
+ customized graphs. Version-4.4.4 has been rebuilt for
+ wxGTK-2.8.11 in Fedora 14.
</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>gnumeric</title>
<para>
<indexterm><primary>gnumeric</primary></indexterm>
<package>Gnumeric</package> has been updated from 1.10.0-1 to
1.10.2-4. The changes include a rebuild for new Goffice and
bugfixes.
</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Gnuplot</title>
<para>
- <indexterm><primary>texlive</primary></indexterm>
- <package>Texlive</package> is an advanced comprehensive
- implementation of TeX for GNU/Linux and the
- Unices. Texlive-2007 is included in Fedora-14. The latest
- build features minor bugfixes. You can also install
- TeXlive-2009 from the Texlive-2009 DVD with no hassles.
+ <indexterm><primary>gnuplot</primary></indexterm>
+ <package>Gnuplot</package> is a command-line driven,
+ interactive function plotting program especially suited for
+ scientific data representation. Gnuplot has been updated to
+ the 4.4 series. Relative the 4.2 version, this version
+ features smoother graphics based on the pango, cairo, and
+ wxWidgets libraries, client-side interactive display using the
+ HTML 5 "canvas" element, better internationalization, support
+ for UTF-8 character encoding, support for transparency and
+ alpha-channel image generation and handling, support for
+ extended command line syntax, including iteration and new plot
+ styles. Further PNG images can be read in and manipulated as
+ plot elements. Gnuplot-py is a GUI for this program.
</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Mathomatic</title>
+ <para>
+ <indexterm><primary>mathomatic</primary></indexterm>
+ <package>Mathomatic</package> is a portable, general-purpose
+ computer algebra system (CAS). The software does automatic
+ manipulations and calculations of mixed symbolic/numeric
+ mathematical expressions, allowing quick and easy solving,
+ differentiation and simplification. Version-15.1.3 features a
+ number of improvements including improved overflow handling
+ and support for Mathematica-style input.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Maxima</title>
<para>
<indexterm><primary>maxima</primary></indexterm>
<package>Maxima</package> is a full featured symbolic and
@@ -72,23 +94,25 @@
hypergeometric functions have all been extended or
revised. Many bug fixes have been included in this version.
</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>mrpt-apps</title>
<para>
- <indexterm><primary>R</primary></indexterm>
- The <package>R</package> environment is an integrated suite of
- FOSS facilities for data manipulation, statistical
- computation, knowledge discovery from databases, data
- analysis, scientific computing and graphical display. R has
- been updated to version 2.11.1 in Fedora-14. A large number of
- new R packages have also been added to the Fedora repository.
+ <indexterm><primary>mrpt-apps</primary></indexterm>
+ The <package>Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT:
+ mrpt-apps)</package> is an extensive, cross-platform, and open
+ source C++ library aimed to help robotics researchers to
+ design and implement algorithms in the fields of Simultaneous
+ Localization and Mapping (SLAM), computer vision, and motion
+ planning (obstacle avoidance). The latest version 0.9.0-0.5
+ has been rebuilt against wxGTK-2.8.11-2. The rebuild was
+ necessitated by the new version of Opencv.
</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Prover9</title>
<para>
<indexterm><primary>Prover9</primary></indexterm>
The <package>Prover9</package> package provides the Prover9
@@ -101,12 +125,39 @@
prover9-complex, prover9-gen_trc_defs and
prover9-test_complex.
</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>R</title>
+ <para>
+ <indexterm><primary>R</primary></indexterm>
+ The <package>R</package> environment is an integrated suite of
+ FOSS facilities for data manipulation, statistical
+ computation, knowledge discovery from databases, data
+ analysis, scientific computing and graphical display. R has
+ been updated to version 2.11.1 in Fedora-14. A large number of
+ new R packages have also been added to the Fedora repository.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>ROOT</title>
+ <indexterm><primary>ROOT</primary></indexterm>
+ <para>
+ New to Fedora 14 is <package>root</package>, an object-oriented
+ open-source platform for data acquisition, simulation and data
+ analysis systems developed by CERN. Complete details about this
+ package, which includes many plugins for data acquisition, may
+ be found at <ulink type="http" url="http://root.cern.ch/">
+ http://root.cern.ch/</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Scientific Python</title>
<para>
<indexterm><primary>Scientific Python</primary></indexterm>
+ <indexterm><primary>numpy</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm>
<primary>Python</primary>
<secondary>Scientific</secondary>
@@ -115,59 +166,22 @@
modules for scientific computing. The latest version 2.8.11
includes numpy-1.4.0.
</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <indexterm><primary>gnuplot</primary></indexterm>
- <package>Gnuplot</package> is a command-line driven,
- interactive function plotting program especially suited for
- scientific data representation. Gnuplot has been updated to
- the 4.4 series. Relative the 4.2 version, this version
- features smoother graphics based on the pango, cairo, and
- wxWidgets libraries, client-side interactive display using the
- HTML 5 "canvas" element, better internationalization, support
- for UTF-8 character encoding, support for transparency and
- alpha-channel image generation and handling, support for
- extended command line syntax, including iteration and new plot
- styles. Further PNG images can be read in and manipulated as
- plot elements. Gnuplot-py is a GUI for this program.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <indexterm><primary>extrema</primary></indexterm>
- <package>Extrema</package> is a powerful visualization and
- data analysis tool that enables researchers to quickly distill
- their large, complex data sets into meaningful
- information. Its flexibility, sophistication, and power allow
- you to easily develop your own commands and create highly
- customized graphs. Version-4.4.4 has been rebuilt for
- wxGTK-2.8.11 in Fedora 14.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>texlive</title>
<para>
- <indexterm><primary>asymptote</primary></indexterm>
- <package>Asymptote</package> is a powerful descriptive vector
- graphics language for technical drawings, inspired by MetaPost
- but with an improved C++-like syntax. Asymptote provides for
- figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX
- does for scientific text. Labels and equations are typeset
- with LaTeX, for high-quality PostScript output. Fedora-14
- includes version-2.04 with many bug fixes. Files generated in
- in-line tex mode can now be renamed without editing their
- contents.
+ <indexterm><primary>texlive</primary></indexterm>
+ <package>Texlive</package> is an advanced comprehensive
+ implementation of TeX for GNU/Linux and the
+ Unices. Texlive-2007 is included in Fedora-14. The latest
+ build features minor bugfixes. You can also install
+ TeXlive-2009 from the Texlive-2009 DVD with no hassles.
</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>VYM</title>
<para>
<indexterm><primary>VYM</primary></indexterm>
<package>VYM</package> (View Your Mind) is a tool to generate
@@ -176,20 +190,21 @@
overview over complex contexts. Release-1.12.7 features a
number of visualization improvements.
</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Weka</title>
<para>
- <indexterm><primary>mathomatic</primary></indexterm>
- <package>Mathomatic</package> is a portable, general-purpose
- computer algebra system (CAS). The software does automatic
- manipulations and calculations of mixed symbolic/numeric
- mathematical expressions, allowing quick and easy solving,
- differentiation and simplification. Version-15.1.3 features a
- number of improvements including improved overflow handling
- and support for Mathematica-style input.
+ <indexterm><primary>weka</primary></indexterm>
+ <package>Weka</package> is a collection of machine learning
+ algorithms for data mining tasks. The algorithms can either be
+ applied directly to a dataset or called from your own Java
+ code. Weka contains tools for data pre-processing,
+ classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and
+ visualization. It is also well-suited for developing new
+ machine learning schemes. Weka has been updated to version
+ 3.2.6-4 with important bug fixes.
</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+
</section>
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