> Does cost count as an ideological reason? I wouldn't argue that stereo on
proprietary
> systems generally works with less trouble (at least for the sgi's and
alpha's; haven't
> had a chance to play around with Mac's yet).
Of course not: cost is a pragmatic consideration, but cost should not
Warren,
> Right now, I would only buy a straight Linux desktop for ideological
rather
> than practical reasons. If you instead buy a Mac "Pro", you get the
ability
> to run all three operating systems simultaneously, at native CPU speeds,
and
> on an as-needed basis thanks to virtualization. Rig
Joris,
Unfortunately, Linux is usually the slowest and least-stable operating
system for OpenGL visualization. Identical hardware often performs
noticably better running under Windows XP (and nowadays, Mac OS X). I've
seen up to 3X better performance on proprietary OSes. But that is not
Linux's
Do you have an error like this in your xterm when you launch the program?
freeglut (/home/hteran/tmp/programs/pymol/pymol.exe): Unable to create
direct context rendering for window 'PyMOL Viewer'
This may hurt performance.
If this is the case (it was my case) the solution is obscure, but it
w
Dear people,
We have a rather (half a year) new (AMD64-3700, 2GB RAM, FX1400 running
Redhat/Gnome) PC and people complain that pymol on our four year old
office PCs (Pentium, on board graphic card, 256MB RAM) is faster in
displaying large protein structures (even at same resolution). How could
this
