Alternative Opinions on which Linux and Fortran compiler and multi booting system to use for Crystallography
From: boyle@laue.chem.ncsu.edu (Paul D. Boyle) Newsgroups: sci.techniques.xtallography,bionet.xtallography Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2 Linux/MS Windows Dual boot installation tutorials: Crystallography Oriented Followup-To: sci.techniques.xtallography,bionet.xtallography Date: 27 Apr 2000 17:17:44 GMT Organization: NC State University Lachlan Cranswick (l.cranswick@dl.ac.uk) wrote: : There are some belated tutorial on the CCP14 site on installing : Redhat Linux 6.2 and MS-Windows dual/multi-boot systems for : Crystallographic Applications. I don't know if you mention this in your Web site, but an alternative, and possibly superior way, to use both Linux and Windows would be to install VMware (http://www.vmware.com) on the Linux box and install windows as a virtual machine. This way one can use Windows apps and not have to reboot. So one could be running SIR97 under Linux in one xterm and running Word on the virtual Win98 box in vmware. The extra bonus is if Windows crashes you simply have to restart the xterm rather than rebooting the whole system. [stuff deleted] Paul -- Paul D. Boyle boyle@laue.chem.ncsu.edu North Carolina State University
From: gsheldr@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de ("George M. Sheldrick") Newsgroups: bionet.xtallography Subject: Re: Redhat Linux Date: 28 Apr 2000 09:41:16 +0100 Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Lines: 25 References: [l.cranswick.494.004B1F37@dl.ac.uk] [8e9sno$rro$1@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu] Paul D. Boyle wrote: > > By the way, in recent times the term 'streamlined Redhat installation' > is becoming an oxymoron. Lately, in my opinion anyway, redhat is getting > too bloated and too oriented towards providing a 'desktop environment'. > I feel a little disappointed in the direction they seem to be moving. > > Paul > > -- I agree - RedHat's game plan seems to be to 'streamline' the Linux installation in order to appeal to Windows users and to earn money by providing support for the things that their installation procedure doesn't cover. This explains why their manual keeps getting smaller. We recommend SuSE, who provide much more information and many more software packages; however RadHat's automatic harware recognition is better than SuSE's. It is probably worth buying a commercial FORTRAN compiler for Linux; we used pgf77 (www.pgroup.com) to compile my own programs and CCP4 with excellent results. The compiler is very robust and produces faster code than g77; a full test version that runs for two weeks can be downloaded free. George Sheldrick |
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FORCE Project - Fortran Compiler and Editor for Windows - Guilherme Luiz Lepsch Guedes
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