What is the best linux distro for scientific purposes?

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2016-01-25 02:46:27Post No. 7808570
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Anonymous 2016-01-25 02:46:27 Post No. 7808570 [Report]

What is the best linux distro for scientific purposes?

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Anonymous 2016-01-25 02:49:02 Post No.7808578
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Anonymous 2016-01-25 02:49:02 Post No.7808578 [Report]

if you're doing high energy physics, Scientific Linux

if you're doing anything else, anything you're comfortable with

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Anonymous 2016-01-25 03:08:39 Post No.7808618
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Anonymous 2016-01-25 03:08:39 Post No.7808618 [Report]

I've been using CentOS for Astro, but I don't that the specific distro really matters.

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Anonymous 2016-01-25 03:18:48 Post No.7808651
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Anonymous 2016-01-25 03:18:48 Post No.7808651 [Report]

install gentoo

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Anonymous 2016-01-25 03:28:17 Post No.7808673
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Anonymous 2016-01-25 03:28:17 Post No.7808673 [Report]

>>7808618
>for Astro
What for? Anything other than stellarium?

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Anonymous 2016-01-25 04:44:57 Post No.7808822
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Anonymous 2016-01-25 04:44:57 Post No.7808822 [Report]

Refer to this http://distrowatch.com/

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Anonymous 2016-01-25 06:38:17 Post No.7808985
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Anonymous 2016-01-25 06:38:17 Post No.7808985 [Report]

I find *buntu or fedora most useful for my laptop. Easy to fins packages. Things just work. Literally gigs of documentation. I use fedora, and just ssh onto our unis rhel server