en-US/Release_Notes.xml en-US/ScientificTechnical.xml

[John J. McDonough]

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 en-US/ScientificTechnical.xml |   99 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 100 insertions(+)

New commits:
commit 3070230139db4523b687b11cb7f1543730c27220
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Sun Mar 15 19:40:01 2009 -0400

    Add Scientific and Technical section

diff --git a/en-US/Release_Notes.xml b/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
index c3be355..ee9d404 100644
--- a/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
+++ b/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 	<section>
 		<title>Changes in Fedora for specific audiences</title>
 		<xi:include href="AmateurRadio.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
+		<xi:include href="ScientificTechnical.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
 		<xi:include href="ElectronicDesignAssistants.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
 	</section>
 	<xi:include href="Legal.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
diff --git a/en-US/ScientificTechnical.xml b/en-US/ScientificTechnical.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4a73dfb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/en-US/ScientificTechnical.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+<?xml version='1.0'?>
+<!DOCTYPE section PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docarticle/xml/4.5/docarticlex.dtd" [
+]>
+
+<section>
+  <title>What's new in science and mathematics</title>
+  <remark>This beat is located here: 
+  <ulink type="http" 
+	 url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Scientific_and_Technical_Beat">
+    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Scientific_and_Technical_Beat
+  </ulink></remark>
+  <para>
+    Fedora 11 includes a range of packages for science and 
+    mathematics.  The following packages have been updated for Fedora 11.
+  </para>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>Mathematics</title>
+    <para>
+      <package>freefem++</package>
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      <package>freefem++</package> is a finite element analysis package 
+      which has been updated to 3.0.
+    </para>
+    <para>	
+      Highlights:
+
+      <itemizedlist>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    complete change of the graphical interface (freefem++ 
+	    replaced freefem++-nw)
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    added medit (visualization software by P. Frey) inside 
+	    freefem++ under the name ffmedit
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    the IDE version is gone until Antoine Le Hyaric makes 
+	    a good one see: <ulink type="http" 
+	    url="http://www.ann.jussieu.fr/~lehyaric/ffcs">
+	    http://www.ann.jussieu.fr/~lehyaric/ffcs</ulink>
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    introduced client-server architecture freefem++
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    ffglut visualizer using glut library
+	  </para>
+	</listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      Full upstream changelog is here: <ulink type="http" 
+      url="http://www.freefem.org/ff++/ftp/INNOVATION">
+      http://www.freefem.org/ff++/ftp/INNOVATION</ulink>
+    </para>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>Chemistry</title>
+    <para>
+      <package>gabedit</package>
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      <package>gabedit</package> is a gui for a number of 
+      computational chemistry packages. 
+      Highlights of version 2.1.17 include:
+      <itemizedlist>
+	<listitem><para>full undo/redo for geometry changes</para></listitem>
+	<listitem><para>full control over displayed bonds</para></listitem>
+	<listitem><para>support for reading connectivities from gabedit, hin, 
+	pdb, mol2 and mol files</para></listitem>
+	<listitem><para>molecular dynamics conformational searches using MM potential 
+	(Amber 99) and Semi-Empirical method (from Open Mopac or 
+	PCGamess)</para></listitem>
+	<listitem><para>migration from GDK drawing functions to Cairo</para></listitem>
+	<listitem><para>geometry and plots can be exported to eps, ps, pdf or svg 
+	formats</para></listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      For complete details see the upstream changelog at: 
+      <ulink type="http"
+      url="http://sites.google.com/site/allouchear/Home/gabedit/download/changelog">
+      http://sites.google.com/site/allouchear/Home/gabedit/download/changelog
+      </ulink>
+    </para>
+  </section>
+</section>