I currently use a combination of RHEL 5 and CentOS 6 on the machines which I manage. Steadily migrating to CentOS 6 as some of the libraries needed for newer software are not easily available for RedHat 5.
If you are coming from a Fedora background, then Redhat/CentOS do have the advantage of being from the same family and so binary distributions/installations of software are generally interchangeable between Fedora and CentOS. On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 11:45 -0500, Roger Rowlett wrote: > IMO, unless you just like upgrading your OS on a frequent basis and the > migraines that go with it, choose some sort of LTS (long-term-support) > release. Currently I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (good for 5 years), but > CentOS or Mint would be good choices, too, and that is what I considered > when I upgraded from my last LTS distribution. Ubuntu (at least for now) > makes it easy to configure hardware and is a popular known quantity for > protein crystallographic software. I had too many hardware compatibility > issues with Fedora about 5 years ago and gave up trying to maintain it. > > 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: [email protected] > > On 1/17/2013 11:33 AM, 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 -- Andrew Purkiss X-ray Laboratory London Research Institute Cancer Research UK
