Re: debian science biology live usb? or biolinux
Hi Ibrahim,
Let me just add about an alternative scenario for you to give a Debian
system a try. Instead of going live-USB way which would require you to
reboot any time you would like to use it, for our NeuroDebian
(http://neuro.debian.net) we decided to advocate a 'virtual machine'
approach. That way people can deploy entire Debian system on their OSX
or Windows box and run it whenever needed without rebooting. You have
3GB of RAM and I think it would be sufficient for you to give Debian a
try (e.g. just allocate 1.5 GB of RAM to the virtual machine).
We usually use virtualbox and you could install a brand fresh
installation of Debian in VM using available debian installer images or
just use our NeuroDebian virtual appliance -- by default it is just a
plain Debian installation with a background changed and new menu added
(I think you could just remove neurodebian-desktop package to revert to
original appearance). See more about it (and appliance images) at
http://neuro.debian.net/vm.html
Cheers
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Ibrahim,
> you probably want to contact rather debian-medibrahim@lists.debian.org
> than this mailing list which is rather about technical things - so I
> changed the list address in CC.
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 07:50:39AM -0700, ibrahim acikbas wrote:
> > Hello Mr Tille,
> > I am moleculer geneticist.
> > I am not familiar unix and linux OSs or any complilation and programing.
> > Unfortuanetly our institution do not have a bioinformatic facility.
> > I used to be some DOS commands. I have installed ms-winXP+bsd on same harddisk in pentium4 machine a few years ago but I used rarely and I could not be use effectively.
> >
> > I need unix/linux OS for several genetic programs work on as well as emboss tool. I can not dedicate a separate PC for this now. I am planning to set up a live usb and use it on a ms-win xp pro sp3 pc machine:
> > gigabyte G31M-SL2 mainboard,
> > Pentium dual core E5200 3.38Ghz (32bit),
> > 3GB RAM,
> > Nvidia GeForce 9500GT video-card with own 1GB memory.
> > one samsung 120GB harddisk with two partition.
> > (usb mouse/keyboard, usb laser printer samsung ML1610, Hans-G 19" squre LCD monitor with vga connection, 1280x1024 on winxp)
> >
> > Some linux based bio-genetic programs Biolinux 5 (32bit), Debian scientific Biolgy blend, DNAlinux, Bioslax, Scientific linux, bioknoppix...are based on debian and/or ubuntu. This linux program may be more easeir for non familiar end users as me. However I were found desktopBSD in net. I hope the programs Phase, Haplotyper etc work on desktopbsd, but don't have any ideas in linux.
> I guess if you are a bit comfortable with some BSD version (which I do
> not know) you will not experience problems with a usual Debian
> installation.
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