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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 class="moz-cite-prefix">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
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Förster <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:docandreas@gmail.com" target="_blank">docandreas@gmail.com</a>></span>
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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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