Hello, what came to mind was:
* What are your peers using? The suggestion to use a virtual setup makes perfect sense. I would try multiple distros and decide which you like best ... and tell us :) * How good is your internet access? Are clouds to which to log in remotely an option? Concerning PHASE, http://depts.washington.edu/uwc4c/express-licenses/assets/phase/clickthrough/license/41/ says that it is not redistributable. So you have to install it yourself. Maybe you ask the author about the Linux distro he supports. Haplotyper http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~junliu/Haplo/click.html is just the same. I think I ran PHASE once, but have no recollection about when this was or with what version of Debian ... which is always "unstable" (bad naming) for me :) Kind regards, Steffen On 09/27/2011 11:20 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
