Hi Ibrahim, Let me just add about an alternative scenario for you to give a Debian system a try. Instead of going live-USB way which would require you to reboot any time you would like to use it, for our NeuroDebian (http://neuro.debian.net) we decided to advocate a 'virtual machine' approach. That way people can deploy entire Debian system on their OSX or Windows box and run it whenever needed without rebooting. You have 3GB of RAM and I think it would be sufficient for you to give Debian a try (e.g. just allocate 1.5 GB of RAM to the virtual machine).
We usually use virtualbox and you could install a brand fresh installation of Debian in VM using available debian installer images or just use our NeuroDebian virtual appliance -- by default it is just a plain Debian installation with a background changed and new menu added (I think you could just remove neurodebian-desktop package to revert to original appearance). See more about it (and appliance images) at http://neuro.debian.net/vm.html Cheers On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Ibrahim, > you probably want to contact rather [email protected] > than this mailing list which is rather about technical things - so I > changed the list address in CC. > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 07:50:39AM -0700, ibrahim acikbas wrote: > > Hello Mr Tille, > > I am moleculer geneticist. > > I am not familiar unix and linux OSs or any complilation and programing. > > Unfortuanetly our institution do not have a bioinformatic facility. > > I used to be some DOS commands. I have installed ms-winXP+bsd on same > > harddisk in pentium4 machine a few years ago but I used rarely and I could > > not be use effectively. > > > > I need unix/linux OS for several genetic programs work on as well as emboss > > tool. I can not dedicate a separate PC for this now. I am planning to set > > up a live usb and use it on a ms-win xp pro sp3 pc machine: > > gigabyte G31M-SL2 mainboard, > > Pentium dual core E5200 3.38Ghz (32bit), > > 3GB RAM, > > Nvidia GeForce 9500GT video-card with own 1GB memory. > > one samsung 120GB harddisk with two partition. > > (usb mouse/keyboard, usb laser printer samsung ML1610, Hans-G 19" squre LCD > > monitor with vga connection, 1280x1024 on winxp) > > > > Some linux based bio-genetic programs Biolinux 5 (32bit), Debian scientific > > Biolgy blend, DNAlinux, Bioslax, Scientific linux, bioknoppix...are based > > on debian and/or ubuntu. This linux program may be more easeir for non > > familiar end users as me. However I were found desktopBSD in net. I hope > > the programs Phase, Haplotyper etc work on desktopbsd, but don't have any > > ideas in linux. > I guess if you are a bit comfortable with some BSD version (which I do > not know) you will not experience problems with a usual Debian > installation. -- =------------------------------------------------------------------= Keep in touch www.onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
