--- "Nagarjuna G." nagarjun@hbcse.tifr.res.in wrote:
Animesh from Goa is interested in getting more feedback and suggestions on the customized engineering distro project. Remember! Sameer! if you also share your notes we can quickly arrive at some plan and start the work.
I tried searching for those lists I had back then on my computer at home, but couldn't find them :-( I have copied the list over here ... maybe we could evolve the same one to cover all branches? I tried recreating it when I first got this mail, but its one hell of a job! :-)
# Electronics Engg: Spice (analog circuit simulation) Varkon (CAD) BruseY20 (VHDL generator) VGUI (Block diagram to VHDL) SAVANT (VHDL Simulator) Alliance (Complete set of VLSI tools)
Spice and Magic are two very important tools, but have licenses which do not allow redistribution ... hence they are not present in Debian either!
# Comp. Engg: expat (an xml parser) jboss (an EJB container) mico (CORBA implementation) BONOBO ACE + TAO ethereal ( network protocol analyser great for learning abt network protocols) nmap (arguably the best port scanner around) nessus (great for demonstrating basic security issues) Beowulf (PVM/MPI)
SNNS (neural networks) ns (simulator for computer networks) Esterel (synchronous design language for embedded systems)
# General simulators for all abov tutorials for all abov Documentation for all abov
RFC's, IEEE Standards.
conclusion: most of existing deb pkgs wud have to be included. some additional pkgs wud need to be added. end result will be a deb pkg that wud be larger than the orig. distro :)
I don't think we need to put everything from a normal distro, since this is pretty application specific.
CC'ing a copy of this mail to the others off-list.
SameerDS.
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