Re: [PyMOL] best linux distribution to run pymol

Dear all,

Thanks for all the input!
It seems like people do not notice any difference in speed between the 
different linux distributions. Also not between KDE or Gnome. That is 
good to know.

Apparently I have some other problem (unrelated to pymol, probably 
openGL/glx related) which causes the dramatic difference in speed 
between our Redhat (5 fully patched) and Suse (10.2 fully patched). We 
are using the latest nvidia drivers from the nvidia website.

Than, about Accelrys/Insight/Discovery Studio. We got Insight/Material 
Studio (we do not have the license for DS1.6 or 1.7) to run under 
Fedora7. Pymol also runs fine so probably I will switch both machines to 
Fedora7. Anyway, thanks again!

Best wishes,

Joris Beld
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Forlani Roberto wrote:
>  
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pym...@li... 
>> [mailto:pym...@li...] On Behalf 
>> Of Mathias W.
>> Sent: 13 July 2007 12:48
>> To: PyM...@li...
>> Subject: 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
>>     
>
>  
> 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
>
>
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