That would have saved me a lot of time and frustration! Now if only I can remember this for the next time :-)
I have a 64bit Fedora 9 system running on an Lenovo Thinkstation D10 - you can buy this without the operating system. I used the 64bit option as I'm processing very high resolution X-ray data and needed to use more memory. I was able to get a 16 GB system for a reasonable cost. If you are a tinkerer and want a few days of 'fun' this is a way to go. If not, commercially available Linux systems are available but I found few with a large memory capacity. Coot and CCP4 were a pain to compile in 64 bit mode (not the developers problem, just mine for trying to get them to work in 64 bit). I had to play with some header definitions, lop h's off etc, add using namespace std and, install a lot of libraries but they now work well. Coot reads all the svg files and displays all the pretty icons. I like the PC Linux route mainly because the hardware is less expensive and easier to swap out components. I am used to Fedora and manage my own system so for the moment I plan to stick with that but it sounds like Ubuntu looks like an interesting way to go. Has anyone had any experiences in transitioning from Fedora to Ubuntu? Is it something to think about, a Thanksgiving project mainly? Cheers, Eddie Edward Snell Ph.D. Assistant Prof. Department of Structural Biology, SUNY Buffalo, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute 700 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14203-1102 Phone: (716) 898 8631 Fax: (716) 898 8660 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telepathy: 42.2 GHz Heisenberg was probably here! ________________________________ From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michel Fodje Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:28 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallographic computing platform recommendations? On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 09:40 -0500, James M. Vergis wrote: 2) Graphics Cards: I like the Nvidia cards since they provide linux drivers. ATI also does now. I would say the only thing I don't like about them is when you do a kernel update you have to remake the driver. I would just add that for those using Fedora, you can avoid having to remake the driver by using the RPMFusion repositories to install the Nvidia drivers. This way updating the kernel automatically installs the corresponding Nvidia kernel module. The same applies to AMD/ATI drivers.
