FWIW, looks like somebody at ETH Zurich is (or had been) trying to bring
Coot into the OS:
http://phd-sid.ethz.ch/debian/coot/coot-0.9.2/
Hello! Let me know if I can help.
Paul.
On 20/02/2021 15:35, Tim Gruene wrote:
Hi Matthias,
I have been using Debian for more than a decade. Every stable release
is supported for at least 5 years.
Many crystallographic libraries and some programs are part of the
standard repository, like raster3d, pymol, shelxle, libccp4,
libclipper, ...
Debian is particularly stable, and requires little maintenance.
Cheers,
Tim
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 21:35:46 +0100
Matthias Zeug <matthias.z...@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi all,
I just came across the (already quite old) news that Red-Hat switches
their support-policy for CentOS to a rolling preview model (replacing
CentOS Linux by CentOS Stream):
https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-red-hat-dumped-centos-for-centos-stream/
https://www.enterpriseai.news/2021/01/22/red-hats-disruption-of-centos-unlea
shes-storm-of-dissent/
I wondered if that has any implications for the community, as
scientific programs - maybe except the big ones like coot, Phenix,
and ccp4 - are often not *that* well maintained for an extended
period. I had the impression CentOS was liked especially for its
"unbreakability," and it seems to be the main developing platform
for some widely used smaller programs (e.g., adxv).
Do you think it would be advisable to switch to a Ubuntu-distro when
setting up new workstations in the future, or is it safe to stick to
CentOS?
Please let me know what you think :-)
Best,
Matthias
Matthias Zeug
Buchmann Institute of Molecular Life Sciences
Goethe University Frankfurt
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