The main differences aren't cosmetic, but rather free accessibility of
updates and distributions, as well as attitude aka "philosophy."
Advantages of Ubuntu include frequent OS updates, debian-based package
management system (which admittedly is a matter of taste, but it is
one of the original package management systems), an active user-based
support community, extremely good internationalization support, and a
major financial commitment to keeping everything free and open: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/foundation
from the Canonical corporation, headed by Mark Shuttleworth, a
South African anti-racist entrepreneur who manages to defy the
cynics: http://rixstep.com/2/1/20060712,00.shtml
Any software that runs on RH/Fedora will run on Ubuntu and vice versa,
so that should not be an issue.
I'm running Xubuntu by the way (xfce4), but I also have the options of
logging into KDE or gnome (Kubuntu and vanila Ubuntu) as well as other
window managers. For me, installing vanilla ubuntu first and then
xfce4 worked fine.
I made the transition by installing on a new partition (new disk) and
booting into it, back when Breezy was introduced. I never looked back.
I've put some more propaganda here:
http://sage.ucsc.edu/xtal/wiki/index.php/Scientific_Computing_on_Ubuntu
Bill
On Nov 18, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Andreas Förster wrote:
Re: Switching from Fedora to Ubuntu.
Don't. Stick with Fedora if it works for you. If you're tempted by
Ubuntu because of the coolness, the bling, the color, the limited
customizability or the lack of root, a Mac will get you all of this
much more abundantly.
If you're used to Redhat/Fedora, stick with it. Everything
crystallography related works on it. I tried to set an ancient Vaio
up with xUbuntu and went back to Redhat 9 after too much
frustration. Things are not where they're supposed to be and don't
work as they should. This is from a Redhat perspective, obviously,
which I've been using since 5.2.
Andreas
Edward Snell wrote:
That would have saved me a lot of time and frustration! Now if
only I can remember this for the next time J I have a 64bit
Fedora 9 system running on an Lenovo Thinkstation D10 – you can buy
this without the operating system. I used the 64bit option as I’m
processing very high resolution X-ray data and needed to use more
memory. I was able to get a 16 GB system for a reasonable cost.
If you are a tinkerer and want a few days of ‘fun’ this is a way to
go. If not, commercially available Linux systems are available but
I found few with a large memory capacity. Coot and CCP4 were a
pain to compile in 64 bit mode (not the developers problem, just
mine for trying to get them to work in 64 bit). I had to play with
some header definitions, lop h’s off etc, add using namespace std
and, install a lot of libraries but they now work well. Coot reads
all the svg files and displays all the pretty icons. I like the PC
Linux route mainly because the hardware is less expensive and
easier to swap out components. I am used to Fedora and manage my
own system so for the moment I plan to stick with that but it
sounds like Ubuntu looks like an interesting way to go. Has anyone
had any experiences in transitioning from Fedora to Ubuntu? Is it
something to think about, a Thanksgiving project mainly?
Cheers,
Eddie
Edward Snell Ph.D.
Assistant Prof. Department of Structural Biology, SUNY Buffalo,
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
700 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14203-1102
Phone: (716) 898 8631 Fax: (716) 898 8660
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telepathy: 42.2 GHz
Heisenberg was probably here!
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*From:* CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *Michel Fodje
*Sent:* Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:28 AM
*To:* CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
*Subject:* Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallographic computing platform
recommendations?
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 09:40 -0500, James M. Vergis wrote:
2) Graphics Cards:
I like the Nvidia cards since they provide linux drivers. ATI also
does
now. I would say the only thing I don't like about them is when
you do a
kernel update you have to remake the driver.
I would just add that for those using Fedora, you can avoid having
to remake the driver by using the RPMFusion repositories to install
the Nvidia drivers. This way updating the kernel automatically
installs the corresponding Nvidia kernel module. The same applies
to AMD/ATI drivers.
--
Andreas Förster, Research Associate
Paul Freemont & Xiaodong Zhang Labs
Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College London
