Scientific software WS comes without scientific software. Perhaps there are many tools that run on Microsoft’s OSs. SL is installed with a full tool-box ready to work: Visualization: Graphviz , VisTrails Programming: Lisp, C++, Java, etc. Statistics: R Language (with graphical frontends) Conclusion Through experiencing the usage of both systems, and implementing solutions with both [...]
Documenting Projects SL provides you with Latex, docbook and HTML editors. It’s suitable for large and complex documentation layouts, among many collaborators. The text editors available (quality) are; Kile, Kwrite and Scribus. Available graphic editors are: TGif, XFig, KSnapshot, etc. WS provides some graphics editors through the Desktop Experience feature. The strongest muscle comes from [...]
Multimedia Both systems, comes with a constrained multimedia support. At this point, WS is very different from Vista, there is no picture-thumbnails and it can’t play DVD/Blue-Ray. SL comes without a MP3-codec installed and a few video codecs installed. Both systems need the installation of software; MPlayer is an excellent video player that supports many [...]
First post in a series dedicated to this subject Lets begin saying that this comparison is subjective and non-technical, it is a user-driven comparison on a PC-class machine. The aim is to help to envision possibilities for your final project (Thesis degree) or PhD start, etc. In any case, at some point you must decide [...]
El directorio Recolecta de laFundacion Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnologia, mantiene unificado el acceso a cientos de documentos de diversas revistas de acceso libre (sin pago). Pueden encontrarse articulos de Mineria de Datos, I.A., Agrociencias, etc. El directorio intengra un buscador que proporciona acceso a los articulos directamente desde la misma web. El [...]