Dear all,
Thanks for all the input!
It seems like people do not notice any difference in speed between the
different linux distributions. Also not between KDE or Gnome. That is
good to know.
Apparently I have some other problem (unrelated to pymol, probably
openGL/glx related) which causes the dramatic difference in speed
between our Redhat (5 fully patched) and Suse (10.2 fully patched). We
are using the latest nvidia drivers from the nvidia website.
Than, about Accelrys/Insight/Discovery Studio. We got Insight/Material
Studio (we do not have the license for DS1.6 or 1.7) to run under
Fedora7. Pymol also runs fine so probably I will switch both machines to
Fedora7. Anyway, thanks again!
Best wishes,
Joris Beld
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Forlani Roberto wrote:
-----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
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