On Aug 24, 2009, at 8:32 AM, William G. Scott wrote:
On Aug 24, 2009, at 7:49 AM, ar...@xtals.org wrote:
my two cents: don't get involved in nerdy discussions
Here's a useful summary:
So it's freebsd then?
Hi Claudia,
There is an option that has not been mentioned yet and has a very obvious
advantage: CentOS. I am mentioning this because it is identical in
functionality to Red Hat and therefore it will take the least of your time to
move to a new system. We like CentOS because it is derived fro
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> You also need a swap partition,
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On Aug 24, 2009, at 7:49 AM, ar...@xtals.org wrote:
my two cents: don't get involved in nerdy discussions
Here's a useful summary:
http://bandcamp.tv/linux-demotivators/
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 togeth
Dear Claudia,
I use Ubuntu and I am happy with it, cannot say if it is
the best. It is relatively easy to maintain which is what you
want.
As for HD, try and determine how much space a typical project
would need and how many concurrent projects there might be. Data
from images would be th
I've used both Fedora (RH 9 through Fedora 8) and
Ubuntu 9.04 for crystallogrpahy. Both are fine distros. Ubuntu was a
little better working out of the box with all the hardware, and
maintenance of the restricted Nvidia drivers is simpler. For some
reason, Wine compatibility was better, too. Th
