SuSE 10.2 workstation image

The SuSE 10.1 workstation image is rolled out and working; it's time to start worrying about 10.2

Improvements in 10.2

• LDAP support: your password is your LDAP password, so it's the same on all the workstations that you have an account on. Also makes it much easier to give people accounts on each other's workstations quickly and use Unix groups for access control.
• The usual updated application software
• Vastly improved patching system- no longer will the parse-metadata process hog the cpu once a day
• Completely new install system, which should lead to fewer problems installing the more exotic hardware about the place

Packages to be dropped

• Mathematica 5.2 - produces very odd error messages; 6.0 will be installed instead
• numarray - even the numarray people say 'do not use this code'; does anyone here still need it?
• PGI 6.x - no choice, not supported in 10.2.
• MPI-CH - we have LAM and OpenMPI instead

Proposed new supported packages

Add stuff you'd like in the new image here.

• gaim (chat client)
• gaussian (64-bit clients only + access control list)
• Eclipse (IDE)
• OpenMPI (Modern MPI library)

Packages definitely to be installed

SuSE

• Acrobat Reader 7 (PDF viewer)
• Firefox (web browser)
• GNOME desktop
• gfortran
• ggv
• k3b (CD/DVD burning)
• Numeric Python (maths modules for Python)
• OpenOffice.org (Office suite)
• OpenSSH (SSH client)
• Pan (news client)
• Pine (mail/news client)
• rasmol (molecular visualisation)
• TeX/LaTeX (document preparation system)
• Thunderbird (mail/news client)
• xmgrace (graphing package)
• xpdf (PDF viewer)
• xv (image viewer)

Third party

• ATLAS
• catdcd
• Dalton 2.0
• g3data
• g95
• GAMESS-UK (source code only)
• GAMESS-US (source code only)
• gOpenMol
• Intel C++
• Intel Fortran (ifort)
• Intel MKL
• LAM-MPI (MPI library)
• Mathematica 6.0
• MPI-CH (MPI library)
• NAG Fortran (f95)
• Pathscale EKO (Fortran and C compilers)
• PGI Server 7.0 (Fortran and C compilers)
• rdesktop
• VMD
• XCrySden
• xmakemol
• xwrits
• xxdiff