[Bio-linux-dev] BL6 testing

[Wagstaff, Simon]

Hi Tim,
I've just got a standalone Win7 Pro laptop without any Novell software. In any case, I'm pretty sure our place has replaced all their Novell stuff. Some of my tasks are probably quite memory intensive so I was hoping they may run faster. I have an core i7 with 8GB and was hoping the 64 bit version will take advantage the extra memory. I've 2 HDDs, a solid state and 7200 spindle. I was hoping to install the BL6 on the SSD (alongside my existing Win 7) and deposit the data/documents etc on the spindle drive (I use the same format for Win OS and data). Being able to see data from both OS on the spindle drive would be an advantage.

Does this platform help your testing?

Presumably I can just upgrade from your server when the new tested BL6 comes out rather than reinstall?

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: bio-linux-dev-bounces at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk [mailto:bio-linux-dev-bounces at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tim Booth
Sent: 28 April 2010 11:43
To: Bio-Linux technical discussion
Subject: Re: [Bio-linux-dev] BL6 testing

Hi Simon,

Thanks for volunteering to test.  A couple of caveats:

1) Switching to 64-bit does not necessarily make applications run
faster.  Most are about the same, some slower.

Ubuntu has this to say: 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/32bit_and_64bit

2) Dual booting normally works very well and the installer sets it all
up automatically.  We did have some problems here at CEH because we use
Novell ZenWorks.  Do you have any Novell stuff installed in Windows?

Cheers,

TIM

On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 10:59 +0100, Wagstaff, Simon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some computationally intensive tasks that run slowly on BL5
> that I could test on BL6. It would need to be installed as a second
> dual boot OS on my existing Win 7 laptop.
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>  
> 
> Simon
> 
>  
> 
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NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre 
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