I currently use a combination of RHEL 5 and CentOS 6 on the machines
which I manage. Steadily migrating to CentOS 6 as some of the libraries
needed for newer software are not easily available for RedHat 5.
If you are coming from a Fedora background, then Redhat/CentOS do have
the advantage of being from the same family and so binary
distributions/installations of software are generally interchangeable
between Fedora and CentOS.
On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 11:45 -0500, Roger Rowlett wrote:
> IMO, unless you just like upgrading your OS on a frequent basis and the
> migraines that go with it, choose some sort of LTS (long-term-support)
> release. Currently I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (good for 5 years), but
> CentOS or Mint would be good choices, too, and that is what I considered
> when I upgraded from my last LTS distribution. Ubuntu (at least for now)
> makes it easy to configure hardware and is a popular known quantity for
> protein crystallographic software. I had too many hardware compatibility
> issues with Fedora about 5 years ago and gave up trying to maintain it.
>
> Cheers,
>
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> On 1/17/2013 11:33 AM, David Roberts wrote:
> > I'm sorry to re-hash this issue, but I just wanted to know what the
> > present general consensus is on linux flavors. I teach a
> > crystallography class every 2 years, and I have a small cluster of
> > computers running fedora, but the deal is that by the time I get
> > around to my class, fedora has routinely gone up at least 2 levels
> > since my last upgrade, meaning that the latest software and things are
> > difficult at best to load on.
> >
> > I'm OK with any linux, I just want one that will be able to run the
> > majority (if not all) of the typical crystallography packages (cns,
> > ccp4, coot, etc...). I also would like one that works well with nfs
> > and local file sharing. I can upgrade fedora, no problem, but I
> > thought I may branch out if others think there are better flavors out
> > there.
> >
> > Thanks so much
> >
> > Dave Roberts
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