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> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 16:06:28 +0200 > From: andreas@an3as.eu > To: debian-med@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Clouds and NG sequencing > > For pure educational purpose this might be a reasonable thing to do. > However, if it is rather to do some tie saving by trying to optimise for > speed my experience tells me that you will never be able to trade of the > time you actually needed for the optimisation process against the time > you might later win because of the optimisation. I do agree that this whole exercise might, turn out to be non-productive, in terms of a result. But the knowledge I will gain is substantial, so I think the time spent can be justified. > If you ask me, purging everything from a Debian machine which is not > needed and using a very minimalistic window manager brings you quite > there where you want to be. I have tried it already, with the help of Debian Live Project. But a problem I face is I don't have a detailed list of packages that are needed, compared to the comprehensive list as in LFS. Moreover if you install a "package" eg. Gnome, many unnecessary things are installed. >DId you ever have shown your colleagues the page which > lists everything we have[1]? I am yet to do that. Additionally I want to start something regarding Debian at my local level, I have space to organize any event(100 people max). I am planning to hold a one day workshop for undergraduate students in my city, regarding "An Introduction to Linux in Bioinformatics." Any more ideas?? Thanking you, Prakhar Gaur |