[daip] advice on Linux version for AIPS

[Eric Greisen]

Robert F Willson writes:

 >   In your last email, you said that you guys use Redhat Enterprise as 
 > the Linux system for AIPS, but I believe that there is a free version 
 > of this (Fedora?) as well. Would this be OK to use? The Linux people 
 > here at Tufts use Mandriva Linux for their systems - Is this also 
 > compatible with AIPS?
 > 

I believe that AIPS works on all versions of Linux, some perhaps
better than others.  We clearly have some problem with Enterprise
affecting interupts, XWindows and the AIPS TV.  I do believe that that
is not a problem in the AIPS code but in the OS.  If you compile aips
locally then yopu must have a compiler that works on your system - but
most people now take AIPS in binary form since that usually runs
faster than the GNU-compiled modules.

I have not been told of a Linux on which AIPS does not work.  There
are problems with setting up the links to the TV sometimes but that is
an installation issue not a flavor of OS issue.

Eric Greisen