Alternative Opinions on which Linux and Fortran compiler and multi booting system to use for Crystallography
From: [email protected] (Paul D. Boyle)
Newsgroups: sci.techniques.xtallography,bionet.xtallography
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2 Linux/MS Windows Dual boot installation tutorials: Crystallography Oriented
Followup-To: sci.techniques.xtallography,bionet.xtallography
Date: 27 Apr 2000 17:17:44 GMT
Organization: NC State University
Lachlan Cranswick ([email protected]) wrote:
: There are some belated tutorial on the CCP14 site on installing
: Redhat Linux 6.2 and MS-Windows dual/multi-boot systems for
: Crystallographic Applications.
I don't know if you mention this in your Web site, but an alternative,
and possibly superior way, to use both Linux and Windows would be to
install VMware (http://www.vmware.com) on the Linux box and install
windows as a virtual machine. This way one can use Windows apps and not
have to reboot. So one could be running SIR97 under Linux in one xterm
and running Word on the virtual Win98 box in vmware. The extra bonus
is if Windows crashes you simply have to restart the xterm rather than
rebooting the whole system.
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Paul
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Paul D. Boyle
[email protected]
North Carolina State University
From: [email protected] ("George M. Sheldrick")
Newsgroups: bionet.xtallography
Subject: Re: Redhat Linux
Date: 28 Apr 2000 09:41:16 +0100
Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre
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Paul D. Boyle wrote:
>
> By the way, in recent times the term 'streamlined Redhat installation'
> is becoming an oxymoron. Lately, in my opinion anyway, redhat is getting
> too bloated and too oriented towards providing a 'desktop environment'.
> I feel a little disappointed in the direction they seem to be moving.
>
> Paul
>
> --
I agree - RedHat's game plan seems to be to 'streamline' the Linux
installation in order to appeal to Windows users and to earn money by
providing support for the things that their installation procedure
doesn't cover. This explains why their manual keeps getting smaller. We
recommend SuSE, who provide much more information and many more software
packages; however RadHat's automatic harware recognition is better than
SuSE's. It is probably worth buying a commercial FORTRAN compiler for
Linux; we used pgf77 (www.pgroup.com) to compile my own programs and
CCP4 with excellent results. The compiler is very robust and produces
faster code than g77; a full test version that runs for two weeks can be
downloaded free.
George Sheldrick