[Bio-linux-list] FW: biolinux

[Andor J Kiss]

Hi Tony,
	Wow, this is great news.  Do you need any help testing?  Let me
know if we can be of any help.
Regards,
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On Mon, 2018-04-16 at 12:29 +0100, Tony Travis wrote:
> 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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