Re: [phenixbb] off topic - linux flavors for crystallography

12 Dec 2013

      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!).

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?).

Thanks,
Engin

On 12/12/13, 8:32 AM, David Waterman wrote:
...
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.
-- David
On 11 December 2013 23:15, Nathaniel Echols mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Andreas Förster
    mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Everyone has a favorite distro, and they all work
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.
I can't remember what CCP4 builds on, but I would be surprised if
    it doesn't support at least the same OSes.
-Nat
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Re: [phenixbb] off topic - linux flavors for crystallography

Engin Özkan