[Bio-linux-list] FW: biolinux

[Mahendra Modi]

Dear Tony,

That is very good news indeed. Expect to get io-Linux 9 by July 2018 or so.

Mahendra

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*Prof. Mahendra K Modi*
*Head, Agril Biotechnology & Coordinator, DIC*
*Assam Agricultural University*
*Jorhat 785013, India*


On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 6:25 PM, Tony Travis <
tony.travis at minke-informatics.co.uk> wrote:

> On 16/04/2018 13:13, Stefan WECKX wrote:
>
> Hi Tony,
>
>
>
> Thanks for the follow-up. Very good news indeed. Any estimate of release
> date?
>
>
> Hi, Stefan.
>
> I attended the 2018 Debian-Med Sprint in Barcelona recently, at which we
> discussed the overlap between the 'old' binary-only NEBC packages and more
> recent packages of the upstream software in the Debian-Med Ubuntu PPA. I
> presented my plans for Bio-Linux 9 and the Debian-Med team were very
> helpful, as they have been for many years helping to improved Bio-Linux.
>
> I argued that it would be better to base Bio-Linux 9 on Ubuntu-MATE 18.04
> LTS, because Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is already two years old and the MATE desktop
> is currently used for Bio-Linux terminal servers and remote desktops.
> Canonical have d ropped Unity and, in any case, MATE has lower hardware
> requirements, which is particularly important to people runninbg Bio-Linux
> on older computers or servers with poor graphics hardware.
>
> Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS has not yet been released, but I have been trying
> out the beta-releases and it looks very good. I expect it to take at lease
> three months to put together a beta-rlease of Bio-Linux 9 and I will post
> announcements about it here.
>
> Bye,
>
>   Tony.
>
>
>
> *From:* Tony Travis <tony.travis at minke-informatics.co.uk>
> <tony.travis at minke-informatics.co.uk>
> *Sent:* 16 April 2018 13:30
> *To:* Bio-Linux mailing list <bio-linux-list at bioinformatics.org>
> <bio-linux-list at bioinformatics.org>
> *Cc:* Stefan WECKX <Stefan.Weckx at vub.be> <Stefan.Weckx at vub.be>;
> Timms-Wilson, Tracey <tmt at ceh.ac.uk> <tmt at ceh.ac.uk>
> *Subject:* Re: FW: biolinux
>
>
>
> On 16/04/2018 09:13, Timms-Wilson, Tracey wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Stefan WECKX [mailto:Stefan.Weckx at vub.be <Stefan.Weckx at vub.be>]
> *Sent:* 13 April 2018 09:21
> *To:* Timms-Wilson, Tracey <tmt at ceh.ac.uk> <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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