[daip] advice on Linux version for AIPS

[Robert F Willson]

Hi -

  For several years. I've been running AIPS (31Dec02 version, I think) 
on my Linux machine with Redhat 7.3. Unfortunately, my machine crashed 
(something went wrong on the Linux side) and we are now trying to 
recover the files, but in the meantinme, I've decided to buy another PC 
and install Linux and AIPS on it. My question is: what version of 
Redhat do you recommend in order to install the latest version of AIPS? 
I noticed on the AIPS web page that you had some warnings, but I'm a 
little confused.

I know that Redhat 7.3 is an old version, but would it work with the 
latest AIPS ?- we still have the old 7.3 disks, but I'm sure our 
systems manager could get a more up-to-date version or anything you 
recommend. I also use the Fortran compilers on the Linux box to run 
some programs I wrote a long time ago, so that is also a consideration 
in which version of Linux I get.

Thanks for your advice.

Rob Willson
Tufts