> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Mathias W. > Sent: 13 July 2007 12:48 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PyMOL] best linux distribution to run pymol > > Joris Beld schrieb: > > Dear all, > > > (unfortunately i cannot switch to Suse since i cannot get > > Insight/Discovery Studio to run under Suse). > > This due to the ignorance of the accelrys developers. Even > the newest version of DS (1.7) does not run on modern > Distributions using glibc-2.4 or higher. They say that they > only support RHEL4 which is real old (and uses glibc-2.3). > I guess it would have been no big deal to test DS on a > glibc-2.4 system and to find the bug which is preventing it > from running (I don't think they are still using > linuxthreads). As of the time DS 1.7 was released glibc-2.4 > was already widely spread and so I call this ignorance. I got > a test version of DS 1.7 and I don't want to use an old linux > just because of this modelling program. As you pointed out > you end up with the situation that you cannot run any other > newer program (or only with great effort)... > > -- > Mad
Mathias, granted that I am not getting money from accelrys ;) I think we should differentiate between support to different distributions and compatibility with different distribution. I have an "unsupported" DS 1.7 running on RHEL 5 (with very nice native support for nvidia graphics) and a week ago it was running "unsupported" on a Kubuntu 7.04 (feisty fawn). At the moment I can not say how pymol is performing on RHEL 5. Regards, Roberto
