I've just set up two home computers for crystallographic work. I decided to play around, and set one up with Ubuntu and the other one with Fedora core 11. Both did OK but I'd say that I had to perform marginally less tweaking with Fedora than with Ubuntu.
As far as disk space - you can cram together almost any number of hard drives using Logical Volume Management. And then there are numerous RAID versions - both hardware and software (my two cents: don't get involved in nerdy discussions of which one is 'better' - just get the one that is easier for you). As long as you're backed up it really does not matter which hard drive configuration you choose. I recommend running updates with whatever you like for software - and also cloning your hard drives using CloneZilla or any other tool so that in the event of system drive failure you can just literally swap a cloned drive in and your computer won't know the difference! Artem > > > > Dear List, > > > > I'm planning to migrate soon from Red Hat Linux 7.0 on an HP xw6000 > workstation with dual Xeon processor. > > > > Please, any suggestion for the best Linux flavour to get the most out of > today's crystallographic software? I've seen that both Ubuntu and Fedora > are quite common. > > > > Also I'm in doubt about the following: will it be safer to use two mirror > hard disks (as I'm doing now) or to use one HD for the software and one > for the data? > > And, finally, please, what HD size is today most reasonable (big, but > still fast enough)? > > > > Thanks a lot, > > > > Claudia > > > > > > > > > > Claudia Scotti Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Sezione di Patologia > Generale Universita' di Pavia Piazza Botta, 10 27100 Pavia Italia Tel. > 0039 0382 986335/8/1 Facs 0039 0382 303673 > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > More than messagesĀcheck out the rest of the Windows LiveĀ. > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/
