The simplest solution is to install your favorite linux distro in a
virtual machine. I use Sun's VirtualBox to install Ubuntu on my WinXP
machine. Performance is reasonable even in the virtual environment. I
use VBox to test install CCP4 and other crystallography software in
Ubuntu before installing on my lab servers. I have also used Vbox to
test windows crystallography software running in Wine under virtual
Ubuntu on a WinXP machine. The only thing you won't be able to do well
in a virtual machine is high-performance graphical stuff like Pymol,
Coot, etc. They will run, but slowly with emulated graphics.
Cheers.
On 2/27/2010 10:10 PM, David Roberts wrote:
I have a quick question about linux for all. Is there anybody running a windows pc with
linux on a bootable cd or bootable drive/flash drive/??? that works for crystallography
apps? I have a colleague who does molecular dynamics calculations and he needs some
conversion programs that are unix based (not pc based - they just haven't been ported and
that's not my area). We have linux computers that he can use, but I thought in the end
it might be easiest if he could just boot up a linux flash drive to run his conversion,
then go back to his pc and windows. Something like "damn small linux" or ??
Any thoughts on this? Thanks
Dave
