<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I have been used both Phenix and CCP4 suite on a variaty of Linux distribution, both Debian- and RedHat-based (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, openSuse, Scientific Linux) on the basis of different architecture and hardware specification (graphic card, processor, etc.). In my personal opinion, Ubuntu is the "safest" way because of the huge hardware support, so that the great majority of updated hardware available today is recognized out-of-the-box. A great support comes also from the community. However, some libraries lacked in the past for specific purposes (e.g. I think there is an issue for mapslicer in ccp4 or a fortran interpreter so that COMO does not run). I have been using openSuse since the version 12.3 and I found that all work correctly and without user efforts. Also the open source graphic driver for ATI cards now work great (this has been a puzzling trouble for a log time since my laptop has a radeon HD5145 which worked only with Ubuntu and proprietary drivers). PyMol and Coot run very well with open source drivers. I have no experience with RHEL but I highly recommend openSuse for a crystallography workstation.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best wishes<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Fulvio Saccoccia<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/12/12 Engin �zkan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eozkan@stanford.edu" target="_blank">eozkan@stanford.edu</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Let me clear this: the perfect storm of hacks *and* lost/stolen
devices with private patient information appears to have led to
changes at our institution. I guess these got our IT and lawyers to
get religion on data security. Obviously, encryption won't protect
against hacking.<br>
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That out of the way, nobody has encrypted linux machines?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div>On 12/12/13, 10:00 AM, Engin �zkan
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At the risk of hijacking the thread, is the other type of "safety"
considered? Our university is cutting net access to unencrypted
computers, after now-publicized hacks originating from a foreign
country. They do not seem to understand or know solutions for
encrypting linux machines (they are also banishing XP; all FPLCs
may have to come offline!).<br>
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So, to cut to the chase, does anyone run RHEL/CentOS/Scientific
Linux on encrypted disks? I am assuming dm-crypt with LUKS would
be the way to go, and I would appreciate to hear about how easy it
is to set it up and maintain. Can this be done without wiping
clean the system? We are not system admins, and don't want to be.
Otherwise, we may be forced to switch entirely to Macs (a Mac OS X
Server as our SBGrid server?).<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Engin<br>
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<div>On 12/12/13, 8:32 AM, David Waterman
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<div dir="ltr">CCP4 builds and tests on a handful of Linux
distributions, but the distributed binaries are, I think,
built on CentOS 5.9. I agree that RHEL derivatives are
"safest" for a crystallography platform.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 11 December 2013 23:15,
Nathaniel Echols <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nechols@lbl.gov" target="_blank">nechols@lbl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:24 PM,
Andreas F�rster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:docandreas@gmail.com" target="_blank">docandreas@gmail.com</a>></span>
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favorite distro, and they all work</blockquote>
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<div>I'm not sure about this - we have definitely
found some distributions to be easier to support
than others, even just compiling Phenix from
source. �My advice would be to stick to
distributions derived from RedHat (i.e. Fedora,
RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux) or Ubuntu,
simply because we will go out of our way to
ensure that the binary Phenix installers work on
these. �(They also have Coot binaries.) �That
doesn't mean other distributions are necessarily
unsuitable, but the software support may be
patchier.</div>
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<div>I can't remember what CCP4 builds on, but I
would be surprised if it doesn't support at
least the same OSes.</div>
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<div>-Nat</div>
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