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Hi Mark, I concur with Michael's assessment. If you have proprietary software (for your backups, etc.), take into account which distros are supported by your vendors. Likewise for any hardware (fibre channel cards, etc.). For the major distros this is a level playing field, but it doesn't hurt to ask. FWIW, this sysadmin chooses Debian/Ubuntu for the compute grid nodes due to the ease of installing nearly everything you need through NeuroDebian. Redhat for the file and backup server because that was the distro supported at the time by my backup software vendor. Regards, Chuck On 01/05/2014 12:51 AM, Michael Hanke wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Mark <[log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > Dear FSL experts, > > We are currently establishing a small neuron aging lab and will > have a server in our lab. To install FSL and related tools, does > anyone suggest which distro of Linux is better to accommodate FSL? > We are considering Red Hat, Ubuntu or SUSE. Which one is better? > Thanks in advance. > > > If you have a sysadmin it doesn't really matter which one you choose > -- they can all be made to work. > > If you don't have a sysadmin and you phd students aren't supposed to > spend their time installing software: choose Debian (Ubuntu's server > flavor, if you will). > > Michael > > -- > Michael Hanke > http://mih.voxindeserto.de > -- Chuck Theobald System Administrator The Robert and Beverly Lewis Center for Neuroimaging University of Oregon P: 541-346-0343 F: 541-346-0345