On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Stephen Graham <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:scg34@cam.ac.uk">scg34@cam.ac.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
P.S. Perhaps it would be easier for the phenix dev team to make and<br>
distribute a Linux virtual image with phenix pre-installed, rather<br>
than try to support Windows natively?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not really - then we&#39;d be expected to support the virtual Linux system too.  My experience with virtual machines is that they&#39;re not particularly stable or reliable, and the only person I know who runs Phenix this way has reported issues with the GUI freezing, apparently unrelated to the networking issues some other people have had.  I still don&#39;t know what&#39;s causing that.  Running the most processor-intensive programs on a virtual machine seems like a waste of time anyway.  For now, I would still recommend that crystallographers either buy computers from companies that specifically support Linux on their hardware and will pre-install it, or buy Macs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Nat</div></div>