Re: debian science biology live usb? or biolinux
Hello,
what came to mind was:
* What are your peers using? The suggestion to use a virtual setup
makes perfect sense. I would try multiple distros and decide which you
like best ... and tell us :)
* How good is your internet access? Are clouds to which to log in
remotely an option?
Concerning PHASE,
http://depts.washington.edu/uwc4c/express-licenses/assets/phase/clickthrough/license/41/
says that it is not redistributable. So you have to install it yourself.
Maybe you ask the author about the Linux distro he supports.
Haplotyper
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~junliu/Haplo/click.html
is just the same.
I think I ran PHASE once, but have no recollection about when this was
or with what version of Debian ... which is always "unstable" (bad
naming) for me :)
Kind regards,
Steffen
On 09/27/2011 11:20 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> 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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