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>1. Preamble</H1
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>1.1. Copyright and License</H2
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> This document, <EM
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>Scientific Computing with free software on GNU/Linux HOWTO</EM
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>,
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is copyrighted (c) 2002 by <EM
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>Manoj Warrier</EM
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>.
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
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GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
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with no Invariant Sections,
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with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.
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A copy of the license is available
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> here</A
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>1.2. Disclaimer</H2
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> No liability for the contents of this document is accepted.
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Use of the concepts, examples, links and information is entirely at
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your own risk.
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There may be errors and inaccuracies, that could damage your system,
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waste your time, etc... Proceed with caution, and although
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this is unlikely, the author takes no responsibility whatsoever.
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> All copyrights are held by their respective owners, unless
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specifically noted otherwise. Use of a term in this document
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should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark
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or service mark. Naming of particular products, software or
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brands should not be seen as endorsements
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> I have not used many of the software applications to which links are provided.
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There are simply too many applications that do the same thing,
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that one cannot be expected to have used all of them. In a book
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on Scientific Computing using GNU/Linux, one would
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mention ones favorite tool to carry out a task and describe it in
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detail. However this is a howto providing links to various
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available free tools for scientific computing and may contain
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links to some software that promises much but delivers little
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and vice versa.
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>1.3. Motivation</H2
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> This howto mainly consists of the links provided at
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http://Scilinux.sourceforge.net which has to be disbanded due to a name
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conflict. The best alternative seems to be to make it a Linux document
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and host it at the LDP site. Another reason is that there seems to be
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many free software applications doing the same things. We hope to provide links to
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the available software thereby making it easy for the scientific community
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to make a choice without spending much time.
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NAME="credits"
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>1.4. Credits / Contributors</H2
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> In this document, I have the pleasure of acknowledging:
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> Linus Trovalds, Richard M. Stallman and their merry men for
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Linux, GNU and also for indirectly broadening various
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perspectives which were not really obvious.
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> A host of colleagues and friends from the
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<EM
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> Institute for Plasma Research, India </EM
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for discussions at various times.
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><LI
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> Marcel Bose, Ivan Lamouret, K. Scott Hunziker, Livine Christin,
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W. Herbert, Simon Pinches and many others for suggesting various
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links mentioned in this document.
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><LI
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> Vasudha my wife for letting me do what I wish and egging me on
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with comments like "let us hope that you will finish at least
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this project"
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> Shishir and Ashoka are co-authors of this document because such a
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collection of links was Shishir's idea and Ashoka is always
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contributing by providing links, suggestions and a second point
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of view. They will be helping me maintain this HOWTO too.
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>1.5. Feedback</H2
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> Feedback is most certainly welcome for this document. Send
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your additions, comments and criticisms to the following
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email address : <TT
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>m_war at users.sourceforge.net</A
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