Re: which system is similar with debian

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

lina wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Martin Steigerwald<Martin@lichtvoll.de>  wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2011 schrieb lina:
> > > I want to download a software, which only provided the below options
> > > except Windows:
> > >
> > > 1] RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 (64 bit)
> > > 2] RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (64 bit)
> > > 3] Suse Linux Enterprise 10/11 (64 bit).
> > >
> > > I am not sure which one will relatively better fit the x86_64
> > > GNU/Linux wheezy one.
> > >
> > >
> > > I just downloaded the .tgz ball version.
> > >
> > > http://download.accelrys.com/downloads/7227362e1f1039be115bcbe4081d9787/DS31Client.tgz
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > later when I untar the .tgz ball, and $ ./DS31Client.bin
> > >
> > >
> > >            Initializing InstallShield Wizard........
> > >            Extracting Installation Archive.

That is really ugly - not a standard Linux installer at all, and no 
option to build from source.

If it were me, the next thing I'd try is to install a copy of 
virtualbox, build an OpenSuse virtual machine, and try to install into 
it.  Not sure what kind of performance you'll get given that 
visualization can be pretty compute-intensive.

Miles Fidelman

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