Dear BBers,
I would like to treat myself to a new laptop which will be my
primary use machine (i.e I want to run all the usual crystallography
packages, hopefully write a few papers, watch Lost online and pay the
bills when needs be). Although I am an ardent Apple fan I find it
difficult to justify forking out $2000 plus for a MacBook Pro so as an
alternative I've been looking into buying a machine running Linux.
During my comparison shopping studies I came across the small company
System76 (http://system76.com) that sell reasonably priced machines that
come with Ubuntu 8.1 (Intrepid Ibex) preinstalled.
My two questions are (i) Does anybody have any experience with machines
from this company ? (ii) Other than the Bltwish and 64bit issues can I
(compile) install and run CCP4, Arp/Warp, XDS Mosflm, Coot and Pymol on
this version of Ubuntu ? I don't mind tinkering around a bit to get
things to work as that's part of the fun.
Cheers Stephen
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Stephen Weeks, Ph. D.
Drexel University College of Medicine
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Room 10102 New College Building
245 N. 15th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone: (+) 215-762-7316
Fax: (+) 215-762-4452
