CAELinux 2013: development and testing

Hello Joel.
Thank you for the great work.
Have you considered to include Adventure FEM in caelinux 2013?
if not yet done, take a look at

adventure.sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

the reference platform is Ubuntu, so the binaries shoud work without great problems
Bye
Vittorio

Ist there any "testimonial" to see if software works as expected?


Installing from sourceforge seems to work:

Ubuntu 12.04 (Lubuntu and Mate desktop added)

Mint 13 based on Ubuntu

Hi Joel,

I will lead by simply saying thanks...you have done some great work with the CAELinux releases.

I am still somewhat new to Linux but have been involved with multi-physics simulations (CFD, Magnetics, Stress, Thermal) for some time. Like most, I got tired of the restrictions posed by M$ and the related software vendors so started OS shopping.

In recent months, I have tried several CAELinux dist's (2008 PCLinux, 2010, 2011) and I was left wanting more after digging into 2011; hearing that you are working on 2013 is great news indeed.

I followed some of your guidance and have installed the following:
Xubuntu 12.04 inside VBox with 2-6 cores and 4GB to 16GB Ram
Machine is HP 8760w with Intel 4/8 core @3.2GHz with 32GB ram.
I installed Helyx 1.0.2 & OF 2.1.1 and 2.2.0 & Paraview 3.98.1. I have been successful in setting up a rather simple icoFoam of a sphere in a flow box using snappyHexMesh -parallel with refinement 7/layers and icoFoam -parallel with no problems (once I figured out the syntax and procedure). Helyx 1.0.2 has taken care of many of the bugs from 1.0 and 1.0.1 so that I was able to set-up and run quite quickly.

There are things I like about the XFCE desktop (speed and responsiveness) but must agree with the prior poster that the 2011 desktop was just great! The three drop-downs across the top were so intuitive and I find myself trying to make other desktops just like that; please keep that feature (of course, others can set it up themselves...but you did such a great job before).

I will try installing Mate on-top of Xubuntu Xfce and see how/if I like that.

I have noticed some video issues with Paraview 3.98.1 when zooming/resizing but a closing and re-run the program takes care of it (might be a VBox issue).

I for one appreciate everything you are doing...let me know if there is anything I can do to help (...I am a decent programmer but still learning Linux/BASH).

Thanks.

I have troubles witch code-aster-mpi:

I tested it with Kubuntu 12.04.2Live CD and after a succesfull installation it doesn't work.
first I had troubles to set up a local server which was not existent. Then
I got this error Message when running astk:



This means it apperas that the local server does not create a rmed.
Or is it something else?

I had trouble getting applets such as "cpu frequency scaling monitor" to install and run on xfce. Also some bugs with "system monitor" application.