Re: debian science biology live usb? or biolinux

2011-09-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:05:19AM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > > I would try multiple distros and decide which you > like best Well, such a try can be time consuming - especially if you want to go that far to install all the biological software on it. You need to find a definition for "like b

Re: debian science biology live usb? or biolinux

2011-09-28 Thread Steffen Möller
Hello, what came to mind was: * What are your peers using? The suggestion to use a virtual setup makes perfect sense. I would try multiple distros and decide which you like best ... and tell us :) * How good is your internet access? Are clouds to which to log in remotely an option? Concerning

Re: debian science biology live usb? or biolinux

2011-09-27 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Hi Ibrahim, Let me just add about an alternative scenario for you to give a Debian system a try. Instead of going live-USB way which would require you to reboot any time you would like to use it, for our NeuroDebian (http://neuro.debian.net) we decided to advocate a 'virtual machine' approach. T

Re: debian science biology live usb? or biolinux

2011-09-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Ibrahim, you probably want to contact rather debian-medibra...@lists.debian.org than this mailing list which is rather about technical things - so I changed the list address in CC. On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 07:50:39AM -0700, ibrahim acikbas wrote: > Hello Mr Tille, > I am moleculer geneticist. >