Hi Chu-Young:
I would recommend either a PC running Ubuntu Linux (my personal
favorite distribution -- they are all more or less the same thing) or
else Apple Mac OS X, depending upon your other needs, budget, etc.
I've got a lot of propaganda for OS X here: http://xanana.ucsc.edu/xtal
and a little bit for Ubuntu Linux here: http://xanana.ucsc.edu/linux/debian_linux.html
Welcome back.
Bill
William G. Scott
Contact info:
http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/
On Apr 1, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Chu-Young Kim wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have not done much crystallography in the past five years but I'm
> trying
> to get back into it now because we stumbled upon a very interesting
> enzyme.
> It seems a lot has changed in the computer hardware world. I was
> trained on
> an SGI back in graduate school. What kind of hardware should I
> purchase to
> run all the popular crystallography software? Also, which operating
> system
> will give me the least headache? We are basically starting from
> scratch. Our
> department has a new Bruker machine and an older Rigaku we can use.
> Any
> advice you may have will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
> for your
> comments.
>
> Chu-Young Kim
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