Re: [ccp4bb] Computer hardware and OS "survey"

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From: mb1pja P {- dot -} Artymiuk {- at -} SHEFFIELD {- dot -} AC {- dot -} UK
Date: 2009-05-02

.. but OSX gives you Unix AND you can run Word /Powerpoint without
rebooting. And you get a user-friendly ergonomic windowing system that
kicks the **** out of XP/Vista/KDE/Gnome...

best wishes

Pete

On 2 May 2009, at 11:32, Nicholas M Glykos wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> We confuse scientific computing with the individual scientists'
> computing
> needs: just because a scientist has to write a grant application using
> word, does not make windows a platform suitable for scientific
> computing
> (or anything else for that matter). Using computing machines for doing
> science boils down to actually using computing machines to compute
> things,
> and for that you need a proper open-source, production-oriented,
> stable
> programming environment, ie. GNU/Linux. What individual scientists
> prefer
> for satisfying their desktop needs is interesting, but, at least to my
> mind, largely irrelevant.
>
> My twopence,
> Nicholas
>
>
> --
>
>
> Dr Nicholas M. Glykos, Department of Molecular Biology
> and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, University Campus,
> Dragana, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece, Tel/Fax (office)
> +302551030620,
> Ext.77620, Tel (lab) +302551030615, http://utopia.duth.gr/~glykos/

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