On Feb 27, 2010, at 7:10 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
A slightly different approach would be to install Cygwin, and then you can do unixy things within windoze. http://www.cygwin.com/
