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
