[daip] Free Linux platform for AIPS?

[Buckner M Creel V]

      Thanks, all.  A fellow here is loaning me the Fedora 
install CDs, as he has experience with that system.  If it 
doesn't work, I'll try Ubuntu.

Cheers,
Buckner

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:57:46 -0400
  Patrick P Murphy <pmurphy at nrao.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:18:21 -0600, Wes Young 
><wyoung at nrao.edu> said:
> 
>> On Jul 30, 2006, at 2:33 PM, Eric Greisen wrote:
> 
>>> Buckner M Creel V writes:
> 
>>>> My name is Buckner Creel; I'm a graduate student at the 
>>>>University
>>>> of New Mexico. I plan to install AIPS on a computer in 
>>>>our
>>>> department. I used to have AIPS running on a Redhat 
>>>>Linux machine,
>>>> but it died, and I am looking for a free Linux operating 
>>>>system. Is
>>>> there a good one out there that can handle AIPS?
> 
>>> So far as I know all Linux systems can handle AIPS esp 
>>>with the
>>> binary installation that we now offer.
> 
>>> Perhaps one of our systems experts (lurking on this 
>>>thread) can
>>> advise on Linux systems that are inexpensive or free.
> 
>> I believe debian, scientific linux or ubuntu should 
>>suffice, all are
>> freely available.  Google them and make your choice. 
>> All three are
>> reasonably well received.
> 
> I second what Wes said.  I've personally made my laptop 
>dual-boot to Red
> Hat Enterprise Linux (what NRAO provides) and Ubuntu, 
>and I verified
> that AIPS runs fine on the latter.  Ubuntu is 
>particularly good in terms
> of ease of use, and is based on Debian.  
> 
> - Pat (formerly in the AIPS group, now just a lurker on 
>the daip list)
> 
> -- 
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