What are the relative merits / downsides of various Python bundles (EPD / Anaconda) vs. a manual install? I have installed EPD academic, and I have no issues with it. It provides more packag...

According to the Enthought website, the EPD Python distribution uses MKL for numpy and scipy. Does EPD Free also use MKL? If not does it use another library for BLAS/LAPACK? I am using EPD Free 7.3...