Speaking of Linux, but somewhat tangential to the thread: Ubuntu has recently released their newest version 20.04 (Focal Fossa). Has anyone implemented this and is there anything that doesn't work? Any gotchas that one might want to be aware of?
Cheers, tom Tom Peat, PhD Proteins Group Biomedical Program, CSIRO 343 Royal Parade Parkville, VIC, 3052 +613 9662 7304 +614 57 539 419 [email protected] ________________________________ From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Tim Gruene Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2021 2:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Linux Distro for setting up workstations - Is CentOS still a good choice? 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > This message was issued to members of > www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB>, a > mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk>, terms & > conditions are > available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ -- -- Tim Gruene Head of the Centre for X-ray Structure Analysis Faculty of Chemistry University of Vienna Phone: +43-1-4277-70202 GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB>, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk>, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
