Re: RedHat or Debian amd64
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 06:45:40PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> >
> > Really the only difference between distributions is their packaging
> > system, their support infrastructure, their release schedule/policy, and
> > how up to date the software is and what software they offer packages for.
>
>
> Thanks.
> Now my project at the Italian supercomputer center is going to production.
> I had no problems with RedHat as far as number crunching is concerned. Now,
> however, I need to access their Remote Visualization service to deal - also
> on the X server - with large files. To this end, I need to download
> software compatible with Debian amd64. The variety of graphic and
> non-graphic tools that I use is very large. Their 64 bit Linux list
> (lacking any GNU Linux for either 64 or 32 bit)
>
> RCM_darwin
> RCM ubuntu 12.04
> RCM RHL 5.6
> RCM openSUSE 11.4 and 12.2
>
> I would appreciate advice as to which RCM will likely work for me. I heard
> about ubuntu but, to avoid being flooded by messages, i put it in the spam.
> The advice I can even from the center is very limited as they don't know
> what I have.
Well Ubuntu is based on Debian, so there is at least a good chance a
package for ubuntu will work on Debian.
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Len Sorensen
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