Scisoft is a project within the
European Southern Observatory (ESO) to provide
a uniform collection of astronomical software utilities for
ESO sites and the astronomical community in general.
The current version, Scisoft 7, June 2007, is only available
for Fedora Core 6 Linux although (unofficially), it may be compatible
with other linux distributions as well.
The previous version, Scisoft v6.1 September 2006, was for Fedora Core 3,
Scisoft v5 was available for RedHat9 and earlier versions are also available for
Solaris 8, Linux Redhat 6.2 and HP-UX 11. Earlier versions however are not
recommended.
See the ESO Scisoft web site
for more information on current and previous versions.
MAST currently provides ftp access for Scisoft 7.0
.
Installation information, release notes, and a list of contents
are also included in this directory. Note ESO plans to make
Scisoft 7.1 available soon.
In addition to the Linux versions,
Scisoft for
Mac OSX has been prepared and made available to the public
by Nor Pirzkal and Francesco Pierfederici. See their web site for more information.