Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Linux Watch: Open Discovery


Open Discovery is a Fedora 9 derived USB based distribution with open source Bioinformatics tools pre-installed.

It's nice that they are bundling all of this in a USB bootable distribution for all those Bioinformatians that prefer Windows. However, I'm curious why they chose to go for a whole new distribution rather then simple creating a new YUM repository, like RPM Fusion, that can be added to an existing standard Fedora install.


If you are interested Open Discovery includes:


Via Bioinformatics.org


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