Re: [PyMOL] best linux distribution to run pymol

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pym...@li...=20
> [mailto:pym...@li...] On Behalf=20
> Of Mathias W.
> Sent: 13 July 2007 12:48
> To: PyM...@li...
> Subject: Re: [PyMOL] best linux distribution to run pymol
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> Joris Beld schrieb:
> > Dear all,
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> > (unfortunately i cannot switch to Suse since i cannot get=20
> > Insight/Discovery Studio to run under Suse).
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> This due to the ignorance of the accelrys developers. Even=20
> the newest version of DS (1.7) does not run on modern=20
> Distributions using glibc-2.4 or higher. They say that they=20
> 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=20
> glibc-2.4 system and to find the bug which is preventing it=20
> from running (I don't think they are still using=20
> linuxthreads). As of the time DS 1.7 was released glibc-2.4=20
> was already widely spread and so I call this ignorance. I got=20
> a test version of DS 1.7 and I don't want to use an old linux=20
> just because of this modelling program. As you pointed out=20
> you end up with the situation that you cannot run any other=20
> newer program (or only with great effort)...
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> Mad

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Mathias,
granted that I am not getting money from accelrys ;) I think we should
differentiate between support to different distributions and
compatibility with different distribution.
I have an "unsupported" DS 1.7 running on RHEL 5 (with very nice native
support for nvidia graphics) and a week ago it was running "unsupported"
on a Kubuntu 7.04 (feisty fawn).
At the moment I can not say how pymol is performing on RHEL 5.

Regards,
Roberto