We use the 64 bit Centos (Red Hat) distro and CCP4, Coot, etc seem to work fine on this. I can't say I notice a big performance boost from the 64 bit side of things. Maybe I'm just impatient. cheers, tom
Tom Peat Biophysics Group CSIRO, CMSE 343 Royal Parade Parkville, VIC, 3052 +613 9662 7304 +614 57 539 419 tom.p...@csiro.au ________________________________________ From: CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Roger Rowlett [rrowl...@colgate.edu] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 5:57 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Who is using 64-bit Linux? The time has come for me to upgrade my Linux OS to something more recent for me and my student workstations. A 32-bit distro is certainly conservative and compatible with CCP4 and Coot, but it seems like that solution hobbles my hardware and puts some limitations on available memory, even with PAE enabled. So who is using a 64-bit distro these days, and are there lingering issues of compatibility and dependency hell with commonly used XRD software, like CCP4, Coot, iMOSFLM etc.? Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (beta) actually works OK with one simple workaround for the global menu for CCP4 and Coot, and wine compatibility is fine for running CrysalisPro in the same environment, so it's really comes down to whether or not the extra performance of a 64-bit OS is worth the pain of compatibility issues for XRD software. Any thoughts? Cheers, _______________________________________ Roger S. Rowlett Gordon & Dorothy Kline Professor Department of Chemistry Colgate University 13 Oak Drive Hamilton, NY 13346 tel: (315)-228-7245 ofc: (315)-228-7395 fax: (315)-228-7935 email: rrowl...@colgate.edu
