Hi all, just wondering if anybody has had experience with scibuntu. Its supposed to be ubuntu but for scientists and science students. My understanding is that it makes it easier to wright in scientific script. Chat Gpt says there are other options like; Scientific Linux (SL)
Fedora Scientific
Debian for Science
CentOS with scientific packages
My first attempt to get scibuntu failed as i found locating it, in and of itself confusing, as i still struggle to use github. any suggestions for science heavy applications including using Microscope camera software as well as math expressions…?
I always install the tools I need on a regular Linux. For equations we were using LaTeX in the past but LibreOffice Math should be enough to include the equations in a regular ODF text file.
Almost everyhtjng scientific now is done in Python with GPU support for heavy calculations.
The other day I installed Palace which can do Finite Element Analysis, it was tricky to be compiled through Spack so I compiled it as a container with Apptainer.
Medical images like DICOM can be opened with GIMP or other open source medical applications or Python.
There are many design tools like KiCAD and Blender for general 3D design.
LabView is the de facto standard for laboratory equipment.
You will be able to find relevant applications and Python libraries for anything.
In the picture you can see how LibreOffice Math works, it has a graphical interface but it also generates LaTeX code at the bottom which you can edit directly if you are not comforatble with the GUI
