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Episode: 1572
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Title: HPR1572: An Open Source News Break from Opensource.com
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1572/hpr1572.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 05:11:35
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Hello hacker public radio, semiotic robotic here.
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Here with another open source news break from opensource.com.
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Of interest to open minded scientists might be our recent story about Fedora scientific.
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A new Fedora spin targeted specifically at users whose work involves scientific and numerical
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computing.
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Project creator and maintainer Amit Saha tells us that the new distribution, quote, was
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created out of a simple need.
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The need to avoid constantly installing the same software on a fresh Linux installation.
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To that end, Fedora scientific comes preloaded with tools scientists use most frequently,
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like GNU Octave, IPython, GNUplot, Latex, and of course a Fortran compiler.
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The distro features the KDE Plasma desktop.
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In our health channel, Dr. Timothy King asks, can open science help patients and save
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pharma?
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Calling the current model of pharmaceutical development, quote, time-consuming, expensive,
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and inefficient, King explains how open source thinking might spark new research innovations
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more quickly, and with lower costs, all with no discernible decrease in research quality.
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The outlines three new approaches to pharmaceutical research and interviews representatives of
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both pharmaceutical companies and the FDA about the future of drug research, development,
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and production.
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And finally, we're featuring an article by Louis John McGibney, engineering application
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software engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who describes
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the role open source technologies play in the organization's Earth Science initiatives.
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Earth scientists, he writes, including remote sensing experts, climate modelers, practitioners,
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policy makers, and decision makers have had a hand in furthering and monitoring the open
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source space.
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McGibney specifically explains how the climate modeling community uses OSI-approved licenses
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to distribute and modify its tools, like the Apache Open Climate Workbench, a software
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library that facilitates climate model evaluation.
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It provides users with applications for data extraction, data manipulation, metrics computation,
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and visualization.
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You can learn more at climate.apache.org.
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That's all for this news break from opensource.com.
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These are just a few of the stories our community has been discussing this week.
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Check out opensource.com for more, or follow us on Twitter at open source way for up to
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the minute news.
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This has been Semiotic Robotic, wishing you peace, love, and open source.
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