A year or two ago we switched from Fedora to Scientific Linux 6. It is a
free repackaging of Red Hat Enterprise, so it should be a
straightforward shift from Fedora. It is supported long term, and has
backing from several large labs (fermilab, CERN, etc)
CCP4, Coot, etc. seem to be well-supported in it. Anything package for
RH Enterprise should be fine.
On 01/17/13 11:33, David Roberts wrote:
I'm sorry to re-hash this issue, but I just wanted to know what the
present general consensus is on linux flavors. I teach a
crystallography class every 2 years, and I have a small cluster of
computers running fedora, but the deal is that by the time I get
around to my class, fedora has routinely gone up at least 2 levels
since my last upgrade, meaning that the latest software and things are
difficult at best to load on.
I'm OK with any linux, I just want one that will be able to run the
majority (if not all) of the typical crystallography packages (cns,
ccp4, coot, etc...). I also would like one that works well with nfs
and local file sharing. I can upgrade fedora, no problem, but I
thought I may branch out if others think there are better flavors out
there.
Thanks so much
Dave Roberts
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