SuSE 10.2 workstation image
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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 will be 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 and use Unix groups for access control. It will be possible to allow 'everyone in the sector' or just a subset to log into your machine.
- The usual updated application software
- Vastly improved patching system- no longer will the update process hog the cpu once a day
- Redesigned desktop which is supposed to increase usability
- Completely new install system, which should lead to fewer problems installing the more exotic hardware about the place
- Security updates until the end of 2008.
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. 7.0 will be installed instead
- 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)
- meld (similar to xxdiff, but includes editing of files.)
- Xemacs
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)
- Gary Strangman python modules
- gOpenMol
- Intel C++
- Intel Fortran (ifort)
- Intel MKL
- LAM-MPI (MPI library)
- Mathematica 6.0
- NAG Fortran (f95)
- Pathscale EKO (Fortran and C compilers)
- PGI Server 7.0 (Fortran and C compilers)
- pymol
- rdesktop
- Scientific Python
- VMD
- XCrySden
- xmakemol
- xwrits
- xxdiff