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/

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