[ccp4bb] Please recommend linux workstation
Dear All I am planning to buy a linux workstation for crystallography. It seems that Dell does not offer workstations with linux right now. Any good experience to recommend? Thank you! Jie Liu
Re: [ccp4bb] Please recommend linux workstation
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Jie Liu, most Linux distributions are not too difficult to install, and with a decent internet connection you only need to download a few MB for a bootable CD for network installation - do you have a reason why you do not want this yourself? Kind regards, Tim On 03/15/2013 05:34 PM, jie liu wrote: Dear All I am planning to buy a linux workstation for crystallography. It seems that Dell does not offer workstations with linux right now. Any good experience to recommend? Thank you! Jie Liu - -- - -- Dr Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFRQ09xUxlJ7aRr7hoRAvJ+AJ9OM3AiV7RixUFaNqPCMbKhkKzqlwCgomP/ 7o166epVERXwzoBe0/xp2s0= =SbA8 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [ccp4bb] Please recommend linux workstation
Dell Precision workstations are sold with RHEL, Ubuntu, or no OS (FreeDOS), but you can't see those options from the public websites. You need to try to get a Dell Premier account, talk to the Dell Rep for your university about that, here's a screen shot from our uni's premier site : http://i.imgur.com/NlekuSq.png We usually end up purchasing one with a Windows license though and just install CentOS over that. On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:34 AM, jie liu li...@umdnj.edu wrote: Dear All I am planning to buy a linux workstation for crystallography. It seems that Dell does not offer workstations with linux right now. Any good experience to recommend? Thank you! Jie Liu
Re: [ccp4bb] Please recommend linux workstation
I've been pretty happy with the machines from System76https://www.system76.com/. They come with the most recent version of Ubuntu pre-installed. However, as Tim says - installing Linux on any machine you can buy is a pretty simple process now. Cheers, Jim On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Tim Gruene t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Jie Liu, most Linux distributions are not too difficult to install, and with a decent internet connection you only need to download a few MB for a bootable CD for network installation - do you have a reason why you do not want this yourself? Kind regards, Tim On 03/15/2013 05:34 PM, jie liu wrote: Dear All I am planning to buy a linux workstation for crystallography. It seems that Dell does not offer workstations with linux right now. Any good experience to recommend? Thank you! Jie Liu - -- - -- Dr Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFRQ09xUxlJ7aRr7hoRAvJ+AJ9OM3AiV7RixUFaNqPCMbKhkKzqlwCgomP/ 7o166epVERXwzoBe0/xp2s0= =SbA8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Jim Fairman, Ph D. Crystal Core Leader I Emerald BioStructures http://www.emeraldbiostructures.com/ Tel: 206-780-8914 Cell: 240-479-6575 E-mail: fairman@gmail.com jfair...@embios.com
Re: [ccp4bb] Please recommend linux workstation
Some of those system76 desktops look overclocked. I've always wanted to try one to speed up processing but have been warned away from it for fear of errors and stability. Does anyone have any experience of overclocked desktops for PX software? Alan On 15/03/2013 17:55, Jim Fairman wrote: I've been pretty happy with the machines from System76 https://www.system76.com/. They come with the most recent version of Ubuntu pre-installed. However, as Tim says - installing Linux on any machine you can buy is a pretty simple process now. Cheers, Jim On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Tim Gruene t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de mailto:t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Jie Liu, most Linux distributions are not too difficult to install, and with a decent internet connection you only need to download a few MB for a bootable CD for network installation - do you have a reason why you do not want this yourself? Kind regards, Tim On 03/15/2013 05:34 PM, jie liu wrote: Dear All I am planning to buy a linux workstation for crystallography. It seems that Dell does not offer workstations with linux right now. Any good experience to recommend? Thank you! Jie Liu - -- - -- Dr Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFRQ09xUxlJ7aRr7hoRAvJ+AJ9OM3AiV7RixUFaNqPCMbKhkKzqlwCgomP/ 7o166epVERXwzoBe0/xp2s0= =SbA8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Jim Fairman, Ph D. Crystal Core Leader I Emerald BioStructures http://www.emeraldbiostructures.com/ Tel: 206-780-8914 Cell: 240-479-6575 E-mail: fairman@gmail.com mailto:fairman@gmail.com jfair...@embios.com mailto:jfair...@embios.com -- Alan Cheung Gene Center Ludwig-Maximilians-University Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25 81377 Munich Germany Phone: +49-89-2180-76845 Fax: +49-89-2180-76999 E-mail: che...@lmb.uni-muenchen.de
