I think a good option would be to use VMWare Player to run a flavor of Linux within Windows (http://www.vmware.com/products/player/). Using VMware player, you can run any flavor of linux or windows within a window in your native OS (be it windows, mac, or any flavor of linux). I use it to run Ubuntu in a window inside of Windows 7 for CCP4, phenix, etc and it works pretty flawless so far. You can also run as many different linuxes as you want within your native OS (ie: If you want to try out Suse, Ubuntu, Red Hat and CentOS you can install all 4 of them on your system using VMWare within your native OS).
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:10 PM, David Roberts <drobe...@depauw.edu> 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 > -- Jim Fairman, Ph D. Post-Doctoral Fellow National Institutes of Health - NIDDK Cell: 1-865-748-8672 Lab: 1-301-594-9229 E-mail: fairman....@gmail.com james.fair...@nih.gov
