[Bio-Linux] AMD64 packages

[Luca Venturini]

Dear Tony,
                   thank you for your quick answer. I had already seen
the biobuntu project page some time ago, but the blueprint there seemed
to indicate that the project had stopped with the release of the
Ubuntu-base BioLinux 5.0. Glad to read it is not so. In particular, the
possibility of a Biobuntu PPA is quite interesting, especially for
porting this software to 64 bit machines too. I look forward from
hearing news about this possibility.
For now, however, do you have perchance any advice in installing this
software on a 64 bit system? In some months I will probably have to
switch from 32 bit to 64 (I plan on a huge upgrade on RAM), so I was
looking around for a smooth transition also in this area.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Bye,

Luca


 

Il giorno ven, 11/09/2009 alle 10.48 +0100, Tony Travis ha scritto:

> Luca Venturini wrote:
> > Dear BioLinux developers,
> >                                             I would like to ask to you 
> > if perchance there is any plan to provide a 64bit repository and/or cd 
> > image of BioLinux - it would be great to use this software taking 
> > advantage of the 64 bit technology.
> > I would also like to thank you all for the marvelous job you are doing - 
> > your repository has made my life easier in installing and discovering 
> > new software for my reasearch projects.
> > Thank you for your kind attention.
> 
> Hello, Luca.
> 
> I've discussed collaborating with NEBC on the 'Debianisation' of 
> Bio-Linux. It will be quite a large effort to create the necessary 
> 'deb-src' packages for Bio-Linux, but this would open up Bio-Linux onto 
> other platforms including 64-bit. One possibility we've discussed is the 
> creation of a 'community' version of Bio-Linux, which I proposed some 
> time ago as my 'biobuntu' blueprint:
> 
>    https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/biobuntu
> 
> My 'biobuntu' DVD is a port of Bio-Linux 4.0 to Ubuntu 6.06.LTS, using 
> the 32-bit binary deb's from the NEBC repository. We are discussing the 
> possibility of creating an Ubuntu PPA for 'biobuntu', which could form 
> the basis of several custom Bio-Linux derivatives with a common generic 
> 'biobuntu' core. My own interest in this is development of NuGO-Linux 
> for our data sharing project:
> 
>    http://www.nugo.org/nbx
> 
> I currently use 'biobuntu' on an openMosix Beowulf at RINH:
> 
>    http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk
> 
> Bye,
> 
>    Tony.
> -- 
> Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition
> and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK
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