Hi William,
It is essentially BSD unix. So it should be fine, unless they continue
to lobotomize everything and make it into an iPod on a stick.
:-)) +1
Thankfully, it is possible to gcc-cross-compile for MacOSX (both i686 +
ppc) from a GNU/Linux machine (the procedure for getting it to
Dear All,
There is a free alternative to MS Office, OpenOffice from Oracle. It
can read and write MS Word files and save as PDF. There are some issues
with names of spreadsheet functions when moving from OO to MS Office.
If you use latex and beamer then there is no need to either ;-). I
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The actual free alternative is called libreoffice, the successor of
openoffice after it was taken over by Oracle - a company, in my personal
opinion, is by orders of magnitudes less 'free' than microsoft.
On 09/30/2011 11:42 AM, Adam Ralph wrote:
Rather than crossover office we now use VirutalBox and have a Windows
XP installation with Office for those of us who can't live without it.
You can backup the virtual machine (which is simply a big file) for
the virtual OS before you do an upgrade of your host OS (Ubuntu in my
case) and copy that
On 09/29/2011 03:55 PM, Dima Klenchin wrote:
I have a feeling that the lack of Windows software continues to be
mostly due to the irrational animosity toward it rather than the
platform-specific issues. After all, there seemed to be many developers
who were happy to code for MacOS 7-9 but
Yes, Open Office has forked, and LibreOffice is now the choice in Fedora
Linux. I have used OpenOffice and LibreOffice, and they have some
trouble with recent .docx files generated in MS Word, specifically with
embedded image files.
On 09/30/11 06:06, Tim Gruene wrote:
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On 09/28/11 20:26, Jacqueline Vitali wrote:
...
--I am happy with any Linux. However, the system needs updates for
security purposes (the University requires it). Do I have to remake
the NVidia driver every time there is a kernel update or is there a
way around it for this NVidia card?
...resisted the temptation to express redundant/easily
objectionable/useless opinion on the virtues of different OS
environments for two days... can't hold any longer... the power of one
ring is too strong... the only useful suggestion on automatic update of
proprietary nvidia drivers has already
opinion on the virtues of different OS environments for two days
It might be of interest to look back on the original poster's question, because
all she asked were a few questions about a specific computer (HP Z210 8 GB
with a low end Quadro Nvidia 400 512 MB) running any Linux, and a
Bill
Thanks for focusing the thread
to the original poster:
If you're going to go OSX I would wary away from the iMac. The all-in-one
desktop solution in small form factor has its downfalls, particularly when the
mechanical disk (undoubtedly) fails.
I have an iMac from 2007 and the
I would disagree about the disk issue. That's not the failure mode we have seen
in the iMacs. Fwiw. Anyway, if it were to fail you could just attach an
external disk and continue merrily along - macs will boot from external
FireWire (and I assume thunderbolt?) disks.
We are putting money
On Sep 30, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Adrian Goldman wrote:
I would disagree about the disk issue. That's not the failure mode we have
seen in the iMacs. Fwiw. Anyway, if it were to fail you could just attach an
external disk and continue merrily along - macs will boot from external
FireWire (and
On Sep 29, 2011, at 2:48 AM, Nat Echols wrote:
I don't know of any macromolecular crystallography programs that don't run on
Mac -
Hey there,
does this mean that SHARP works on a Mac?
ciao,
s
--
Sebastiano Pasqualato, PhD
Crystallography Unit
IFOM-IEO Campus
Cogentech - Consortium for
Yes, SHARP and BUSTER both work on a Mac.
Cheers,
Dirk.
Am 29.09.11 09:45, schrieb Sebastiano Pasqualato:
On Sep 29, 2011, at 2:48 AM, Nat Echols wrote:
I don't know of any macromolecular crystallography programs that
don't run on Mac -
Hey there,
does this mean that SHARP works on a Mac?
Thanks Dirk,
that's good news.
I'll take a look at it, then.
thanks,
ciao,
s
On Sep 29, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Dirk Kostrewa wrote:
Yes, SHARP and BUSTER both work on a Mac.
Cheers,
Dirk.
Am 29.09.11 09:45, schrieb Sebastiano Pasqualato:
On Sep 29, 2011, at 2:48 AM, Nat Echols wrote:
I am routinely having the Mac vs Linux conversation with crystallographers and
new students, especially given the price of Macs.
Generally I think that the extra money spent on a Mac pays for less time spent
messing around installing software, sorting out dependencies, swearing at the
less
Hi Sebastiano,
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 09:52:44AM +0200, Sebastiano Pasqualato wrote:
does this mean that SHARP works on a Mac?
yes (since 2004), same for BUSTER (since 2009) and autoPROC.
Cheers
Clemens
--
***
* Clemens
This discussion will rage forever, it seems, but that won't stop us
all chipping in. My experience is the opposite: all crystallographic
software I use is available as binaries for the major linux distros,
and installs without problems. Ubuntu is easy to maintain on desktops
(your mileage on
Le 29/09/2011 11:43, Johan Turkenburg a écrit :
This discussion will rage forever, it seems, but that won't stop us
all chipping in. My experience is the opposite: all crystallographic
software I use is available as binaries for the major linux distros,
and installs without problems. Ubuntu is
2011/9/29 Simon Kolstoe s.kols...@ucl.ac.uk:
Generally I think that the extra money spent on a Mac pays for less time
spent messing around
installing software, sorting out dependencies, swearing at the less than
effective office software etc.
that plagues Linux which is more of a computer
Simon Kolstoe wrote:
Meanwhile I think windows is slowly improving as a crystallography
platform - and Microsoft is perhaps no longer hated in principle - however
the one student in our lab who opted to go the windows route seems very
limited in the software he can run.
I have a feeling
There's one piece of software that does not run on a Mac.
GRAPHent
I tried some years ago to port it to a Mac without success, that's the only
reason I have a dead PC (*technically it has Windows on it but I call it dead
as long as no linux is installed) in my office waiting to get some flavor
I do all my program development on Linux and never liked Windows. However
I recently attended two small-molecule crystallographic workshops where
the large majority of the participants used exclusively Windows, and the
ones who didn't use Windows used mostly Macs. I think the decisive
advantage of
Hi,
I have been extremely happy with the latest Ubuntu release, on both a
Toshiba tablet (the touch screen worked right out of the box) and on a
desktop with the proprietary NVIDIA driver. I haven't had to update,
so I don't know what happens with the NVIDIA driver in that case, but
I can tell
On Thursday, September 29, 2011 12:55:43 pm George M. Sheldrick wrote:
I do all my program development on Linux and never liked Windows. However
I recently attended two small-molecule crystallographic workshops where
the large majority of the participants used exclusively Windows, and the
ones
Dear colleagues,
I need some advice for a new computer.
(1) I have the option of an HP Z210 8 GB with a low end Quadro Nvidia 400
512 MB.
--How does Coot run with this card?
--I am happy with any Linux. However, the system needs updates for security
purposes (the University requires it). Do
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Jacqueline Vitali
jackie.vit...@gmail.comwrote:
(2) Second option is an IMAC 4 GB 2.5 GHz with AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB
GDDRS.
--How does Coot work with this graphics card?
I don't have exactly this, but something very similar (6770M), and it works
very
On Sep 28, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Jacqueline Vitali wrote:
Dear colleagues,
I need some advice for a new computer.
(1) I have the option of an HP Z210 8 GB with a low end Quadro Nvidia 400
512 MB.
--How does Coot run with this card?
OK
--I am happy with any Linux. However, the
I use home built LINUX Intel boxes with 2Gb memory and low end Nvidia cards
(GT 8000 series to GT 200 series) and they are fine with Coot, Pymol, CCP4i.
I can even run CrysalisPro (Windows) in WINE. More memory is cheap to add.
If you use a Ubuntu LTS release, you get 3 yr of updates. Proprietary
On 09/29/2011 09:46 AM, William G. Scott wrote:
On Sep 28, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Jacqueline Vitali wrote:
Dear colleagues,
I need some advice for a new computer.
(1) I have the option of an HP Z210 8 GB with a low end Quadro Nvidia 400 512
MB.
--How does Coot run with this card?
OK
--I am
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