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Dear Dave,
if you want to avoid software running, I can recommend Debian stable.
Once released, Debian does not change version numbers of any of its
packages, they only include security and other fixes for 3-5 years.
Debian also follows POSIX and other standards which I personally find
extremely convenient. If I know correctly, at least with European
system administrators Debian is the most wide spread system with
correspondingly large support. Another plus (that comes with
conforming to standards): if you do an update you can be confident
that your personal settings (printer, network, etc) won't get
corrupted - the update system does not overwrite configuration files
without asking.
Best,
Tim
On 01/17/2013 05:33 PM, 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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Dr Tim Gruene
Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
Tammannstr. 4
D-37077 Goettingen
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