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Going to SuSE 10.1 is going to involve changes and compromise as usual. |
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 |
+ | == 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 lot of work to maintain |
* molmol - Does anyone use this? It's old code and so a lot of work to maintain |
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* Intel icc 8.x |
* Intel icc 8.x |
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| + | == Packages I am definitely installing == |
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| + | * Acrobat Reader 7 (PDF viewer) |
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| − | * security updates until May 2008, may be able to stretch this further by judicious use of rpms from SLES 10. |
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| + | * Firefox (web browser) |
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| + | * Epiphany (web browser) |
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| + | * GNOME desktop |
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| + | * gfortran (free Fortran 95 compiler) |
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| + | * gv (Postscript viewer) |
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| + | * k3b (CD/DVD burning) |
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| + | * Numeric Python (maths modules for Python) |
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| + | * OpenOffice.org (Office suite) |
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| + | * OpenSSH (SSH client) |
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| + | * Pan (news client) |
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| + | * Pine (mail/news client) |
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| + | * rasmol (molecular visualisation) |
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| + | * TeX/LaTeX (document preparation system) |
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| + | * Thunderbird (mail/news client) |
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| + | * xmgrace (graphing package) |
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| + | * xpdf (PDF viewer) |
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| + | * xv (image viewer) |
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| + | * Intel MKL 7.2.1 |
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| + | * Gary Strangman's Python utilities |
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| + | * Mathematica 5.2 |
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| + | * NAG Fortran (f95) 5.1 |
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| + | * numarray |
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| + | * PGI Server (Fortran and C compilers) 6.2 |
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| + | * pymol |
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| + | * rdesktop |
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| + | * Scientific Python |
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| + | * VMD |
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| + | * xmakemol |
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| + | * xwrits |
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| + | * xxdiff |
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| + | * security updates until May 2008, possibly longer |
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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 |
+ | * much better removable media handling (in fact this is debatable: it only works for GNOME and KDE but it works better for those than the old one did) |
| − | * gcc 4 and gfortran |
+ | * gcc 4 and gfortran part of image |
| + | * preconfigured lookup support in mail clients (ie a University-wide email addressbook) |
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| + | * module system handles libraries intelligently: no more -L and -I needed in most cases, but full control available if needed |
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| + | * intending to have a 64 bit version as well as 32 |
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| + | * modules dependencies far more logical |
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| − | Problems with 10.1 |
+ | == Problems with 10.1 image == |
| − | * no gcc3 package, so some stuff won't |
+ | * no gcc3 package, so some stuff won't currently compile. They supply g77 out of gcc 3 so why not gcc itself? |
* Pathscale don't support it yet |
* Pathscale don't support it yet |
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| − | * removable media handling broken for fvwm |
+ | * removable media handling broken for fvwm users |
Revision as of 09:40, 6 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 lot of work 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 probably 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 so no need for 5.1?
- PGI 6.0 and below - In fact only 6.2 is supported on SuSE 10.1, but 6.1 seems to work OK so far
- Intel ifort 8.x
- Intel icc 8.x
Packages I am definitely installing
- Acrobat Reader 7 (PDF viewer)
- Firefox (web browser)
- Epiphany (web browser)
- GNOME desktop
- gfortran (free Fortran 95 compiler)
- gv (Postscript viewer)
- 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)
- Intel MKL 7.2.1
- Gary Strangman's Python utilities
- Mathematica 5.2
- NAG Fortran (f95) 5.1
- numarray
- PGI Server (Fortran and C compilers) 6.2
- pymol
- rdesktop
- Scientific Python
- VMD
- xmakemol
- xwrits
- xxdiff
Good things about the 10.1 image
- security updates until May 2008, possibly longer
- working automounter
- much better removable media handling (in fact this is debatable: it only works for GNOME and KDE but it works better for those than the old one did)
- gcc 4 and gfortran part of image
- preconfigured lookup support in mail clients (ie a University-wide email addressbook)
- module system handles libraries intelligently: no more -L and -I needed in most cases, but full control available if needed
- intending to have a 64 bit version as well as 32
- modules dependencies far more logical
Problems with 10.1 image
- no gcc3 package, so some stuff won't currently compile. They supply g77 out of gcc 3 so why not gcc itself?
- Pathscale don't support it yet
- removable media handling broken for fvwm users