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CCP4bb navigationCCP4bb <-- 1999 <-- November 1999 <-- 30 November 1999Subject: Re: Computer hardware and OS "survey" From: Jacob Keller j-keller2 {- at -} MD {- dot -} NORTHWESTERN {- dot -} EDU Date: 2009-05-01 I have found that cygwin works quite well for doing unix-type things on windows--one can use whatever shell one likes, run perl scripts, etc. Have people had problems with cygwin? I used to run CNS on it all the time. Jacob ******************************************* Jacob Pearson Keller Northwestern University Medical Scientist Training Program Dallos Laboratory F. Searle 1-240 2240 Campus Drive Evanston IL 60208 lab: 847.491.2438 cel: 773.608.9185 email: j-keller2@northwestern.edu ******************************************* ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 10:23 AM Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Computer hardware and OS "survey" > Hi > > Most of the software for macromolecular crystallography data analysis will > run happily on Linux, OS X or Windows. However, Windows is much more > GUI-based and much less open to shell scripting than UNIX based systems > like Linux or OS X (DOS-Shell is very inflexible, even compared to sh or > csh, let alone tcsh, zsh or bash). Even Python scripts are often not 100% > portable (some of the older scripting languages like Tcl are better inthis > respect, in my experience). > > Having said that, nearly half the downloads of Mosflm are for the Windows > version - but I have no figures on how many people actually use it, having > got hold of a copy! In my hands, it works as well as on the other > platforms. YMMV. > > If your home institution really wants you to drop Macs, then I think you > have to insist on Linux with proper support - but that costs salaries! > > Just my two ha'porth. > >> My home institution, in effort to cut costs, is making an effort to push >> those of us on Macs onto PCs. Up till now they have been very generous >> via a lease program for computer hardware, but that is changing given the >> current economics. The institution currently does not support Linux so >> we >> are limited to Mac and Windows OS. >> >> We certainly make use of William Scotts crystallography on OS X (thanks >> so much!) so our main argument is that we would have far more support >> "out there" for crystallography on the Mac than we would have for on >> Windows. But to be fair (and hopefully bolster our argument) I should >> find out if that is true. I did not find an equal web support page for >> Windows. >> >> A volunteer survey will be distorted (probably by Mac fanboys like me) so >> I am asking for peoples best guesstimate as to what % use of Mac, >> Windows, or Linux is out there for data processing and model building. >> Our core programs are coot, o, pymol, cns, and ccp4 but we certainly make >> occasional use of other crystallography programs out there (solve, >> epmr...) >> >> Also what are the relative crystallography support for Mac vs. Windows. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Todd >> >> >> -- >> Todd M. Link >> Assistant Professor >> MD Anderson Cancer Center >> Univ. of Texas >> >> (713) 834-6394 >> >> > CCP4bb navigationCCP4bb <-- 1999 <-- November 1999 <-- 30 November 1999 |
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