[Bio-linux-list] FW: biolinux

[Tony Travis]

On 16/04/2018 09:13, Timms-Wilson, Tracey wrote:
>
> *From:* Stefan WECKX [mailto:Stefan.Weckx at vub.be]
> *Sent:* 13 April 2018 09:21
> *To:* Timms-Wilson, Tracey <tmt at ceh.ac.uk>
> *Subject:* biolinux
>
> Dear colleague,
>
> As we are planning to setting up a new linux server for 
> bioinformatics, I was wondering whether you have plans to release a 
> BioLinux 9 based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?
>

Hi, Stefan.

Tracey forwarded your email to me and I've replied to the Bio-Linux list 
in case anyone else has the sanme question.

Yes, we are planning a release of Bio-Linux 9 but it will be based on 
Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS not 16.04.

The new version of Bio-Linux will include many packages from the 
Debian-Med team and will also have "Bioconda" pre-installed.

You can upgrade Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to 16.04 in Bio-Linux 8, but many 
package dependencies will be broken and I don't recommend doing the 
upgrade unless you are willing to fix these dependency problems 
yourself. I've upgraded a few instances of Bio-Linux 8 based on Ubuntu 
14.04 LTS to Ubunti 16.04 LTS and the upgrade is a lot smoother now than 
it was. Please post your experiences here if you decide to upgrade to 
Ubuntu 16.04.

Thanks,

   Tony.


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