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We need a new workstation image as SuSE 9.3 won't be supported for very much longer (ends Easter 2007). In order that I don't have to do this this again in six months I'm going for SuSE 10.1 rather than 10.0. I have considered Debian but am still not totally convinced about the improvement in the release cycle. Ubuntu needs too much messing about to make it work the way I want it to. Redhat isn't free (as in beer). |
We need a new workstation image as SuSE 9.3 won't be supported for very much longer (ends Easter 2007). In order that I don't have to do this this again in six months I'm going for SuSE 10.1 rather than 10.0. I have considered Debian but am still not totally convinced about the improvement in the release cycle. Ubuntu needs too much messing about to make it work the way I want it to. Redhat isn't free (as in beer). |
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| − | + | Going to SuSE 10.1 is going to involve changes and compromise as usual. |
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| + | Packages I'm going to drop unless someone comes up with a reason to keep them: |
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| + | * molmol - Does anyone use this? It's old code and so a pain to maintain |
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| + | * GAMESS-US - I'll keep the source hanging about, but does anyone need the compiled version? |
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| + | * GAMESS-UK - ditto |
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| + | * Pathscale - nothing can make me install this, it's not currently supported on 10.1 by the vendor. I expect this will change in time though, at which point I'll install it |
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| + | * g95 - still not at release 1.0 and therefore a moving target. So painless to install that anyone who wants to use it can easily do it themselves |
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| + | * Mathematica 5.1 - We have 5.2 |
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| + | * PGI 6.0 and below - In fact only 6.2 is supported on SuSE 10.1, but 6.1 seems to work OK |
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| + | * Intel ifort 8.x |
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| + | * Intel icc 8.x |
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Good things about 10.1 |
Good things about 10.1 |
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* security updates until May 2008, may be able to stretch this further by judicious use of rpms from SLES 10. |
* security updates until May 2008, may be able to stretch this further by judicious use of rpms from SLES 10. |
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* working automounter |
* working automounter |
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| − | * much better removable media handling (in fact this is debatable: it only works for GNOME and KDE. Those of us who |
+ | * much better removable media handling (in fact this is debatable: it only works for GNOME and KDE. Those of us who cling to fvwm will finally have to enter the 21st century, myself included) |
* allegedly new and improved update mechanism (in fact: buggy and totally unreliable new update mechanism, but I live in hope of fixes and anyway it's the sysadmin's problem not the user's) |
* allegedly new and improved update mechanism (in fact: buggy and totally unreliable new update mechanism, but I live in hope of fixes and anyway it's the sysadmin's problem not the user's) |
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* gcc 4 and gfortran |
* gcc 4 and gfortran |
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Revision as of 17:44, 5 December 2006
We need a new workstation image as SuSE 9.3 won't be supported for very much longer (ends Easter 2007). In order that I don't have to do this this again in six months I'm going for SuSE 10.1 rather than 10.0. I have considered Debian but am still not totally convinced about the improvement in the release cycle. Ubuntu needs too much messing about to make it work the way I want it to. Redhat isn't free (as in beer).
Going to SuSE 10.1 is going to involve changes and compromise as usual.
Packages I'm going to drop unless someone comes up with a reason to keep them:
- molmol - Does anyone use this? It's old code and so a pain to maintain
- GAMESS-US - I'll keep the source hanging about, but does anyone need the compiled version?
- GAMESS-UK - ditto
- Pathscale - nothing can make me install this, it's not currently supported on 10.1 by the vendor. I expect this will change in time though, at which point I'll install it
- g95 - still not at release 1.0 and therefore a moving target. So painless to install that anyone who wants to use it can easily do it themselves
- Mathematica 5.1 - We have 5.2
- PGI 6.0 and below - In fact only 6.2 is supported on SuSE 10.1, but 6.1 seems to work OK
- Intel ifort 8.x
- Intel icc 8.x
Good things about 10.1
- security updates until May 2008, may be able to stretch this further by judicious use of rpms from SLES 10.
- working automounter
- much better removable media handling (in fact this is debatable: it only works for GNOME and KDE. Those of us who cling to fvwm will finally have to enter the 21st century, myself included)
- allegedly new and improved update mechanism (in fact: buggy and totally unreliable new update mechanism, but I live in hope of fixes and anyway it's the sysadmin's problem not the user's)
- gcc 4 and gfortran
Problems with 10.1 that I can't currently fix (I'm not going to bore everyone with the list of bad things I've fixed)
- no gcc3 package, so some stuff won't work. They supply g77 out of gcc 3 so why not gcc itself?
- Pathscale don't support it yet