Re: [PyMOL] best linux distribution to run pymol

Joris Beld schrieb:
> Dear all,

> (unfortunately i cannot switch to Suse since i cannot get 
> Insight/Discovery Studio to run under Suse).

This due to the ignorance of the accelrys developers. Even the newest version of DS (1.7) does not run on modern 
Distributions using glibc-2.4 or higher. They say that they only support RHEL4 which is real old (and uses glibc-2.3).
I guess it would have been no big deal to test DS on a glibc-2.4 system and to find the bug which is preventing it from 
running (I don't think they are still using linuxthreads). As of the time DS 1.7 was released glibc-2.4 was already 
widely spread and so I call this ignorance. I got a test version of DS 1.7 and I don't want to use an old linux just 
because of this modelling program. As you pointed out you end up with the situation that you cannot run any other newer 
program (or only with great effort)...

-- 
Mad