What is the best linux distro for scientific purposes?
if you're doing high energy physics, Scientific Linux
if you're doing anything else, anything you're comfortable with
I've been using CentOS for Astro, but I don't that the specific distro really matters.
install gentoo
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>for Astro
What for? Anything other than stellarium?
Refer to this http://distrowatch.com/
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