Re: [ccp4bb] Please recommend linux workstation

2013-03-15 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Jie Liu, most Linux distributions are not too difficult to install, and with a decent internet connection you only need to download a few MB for a bootable CD for network installation - do you have a reason why you do not want this yourself?

Re: [ccp4bb] Please recommend linux workstation

2013-03-15 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Dell Precision workstations are sold with RHEL, Ubuntu, or no OS (FreeDOS), but you can't see those options from the public websites. You need to try to get a Dell Premier account, talk to the Dell Rep for your university about that, here's a screen shot from our uni's premier site :

Re: [ccp4bb] Please recommend linux workstation

2013-03-15 Thread Jim Fairman
I've been pretty happy with the machines from System76https://www.system76.com/. They come with the most recent version of Ubuntu pre-installed. However, as Tim says - installing Linux on any machine you can buy is a pretty simple process now. Cheers, Jim On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Tim

Re: [ccp4bb] Please recommend linux workstation

2013-03-15 Thread Alan Cheung
Some of those system76 desktops look overclocked. I've always wanted to try one to speed up processing but have been warned away from it for fear of errors and stability. Does anyone have any experience of overclocked desktops for PX software? Alan On 15/03/2013 17:55, Jim Fairman wrote: