I sincerely thank everyone for his/her input. It is interesting to see
which my priors about Ubuntu's bleeding edge were confirmed/refuted.
On 5/21/16 6:48 PM, Mark Abraham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In our lab, we use Ubuntu LTS for all our compute servers. The whole point
> of those flavours is stability and they are supported for 5 years, so
> anybody recommending for or against Ubuntu based on stability who hasn't
> mentioned LTS may not be describing the full picture. ;-) Since you have to
> install a bunch of up-to-date software for scientific computing, regardless
> of which base distro you use, pick whatever offers reasonable stability and
> suits the person doing the work.
>
> On my desktop, I use Arch Linux which has been very stable for me, despite
> being able to offer me bleeding edge developer tools.
>
> Mark
>
> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 8:56 AM Karl Kirschner <k.n.kirschner.gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I second the use of LinuxMint for workstations. I used OpenSuse for close
>> to a decade, but switched to LinuxMint ~2 years ago. It primarily uses the
>> Ubuntu repositories, but it has the best update manager I have seen -
>> allowing you to choose between 5 different levels (from safe to
>> hope-you-survive-this-update) for choosing how to update the OS. Installing
>> scientific software not found in the Ubuntu repos has not been a problem.
>> (I've also installed it on my 85-year-old mother's computer, and it seems
>> has performed flawlessly for her.)
>>
>> For clusters, I have mostly seen some version of Redhat installed
>> throughout the years.
>>
>> Bests,
>> Karl
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 1:13 AM, Ho Leung Ng <hng.hawaii.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with Ross about Ubuntu being a poor choice. I originally set up
>>> most of our lab computers with Ubuntu to provide an easy-to-use
>> environment
>>> for students. However, the constant updates with Ubuntu wreak havoc with
>>> the CUDA libraries that we use for Amber. We've had much better success
>>> with LinuxMint, which is based on Ubuntu but is more conservative and
>>> stable.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ho
>>>
>>> Ho Leung Ng
>>> University of Hawaii at Manoa
>>> Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
>>> hng.hawaii.edu
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