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Dear all, It is obviously convenient to use USB disks rather than tape drives to transfer diffraction images from synchrotrons to the lab. Unfortunately, my current Linux distribution RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL4 U3) (based on kernel 2.6.9) does not support USB disks. I find this surprising. RHEL4 is convenient, Dell ships PCs with it installed and we have an institutional license that allows me to run up2date locally. I'm considering moving to Fedora Core 5 (FC5) (based on kernel 2.6.16). 1. Can FC5 handle usb disks? (USB 2.0) 2. Does the nVidia Quadro video card driver package (version 8762) support stereo under FC5? 3. Have the issues with the switch to a different Fortran front end to the compiler been fully resolved? ie can I compile the CCP4 package with full optimization? 4. Are there other issues I should be aware of? I learn from the FC5 release notes that serial mice are no longer supported. I still have a couple of older workstations with these. My alternative is to stay with RHEL4 and use a Mac or PC to transfer the data and wait for the next RHEL release. I know that there are many other excellent Linux distributions out there - I'm just assuming that moving to FC5 from RHEL will give me an easier learning curve. Many thanks Peter -- Peter Brick, Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BW, UK Tel: 020-7594-7704 Fax: 020-7589-0191
