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Dear Tony,<BR>
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.<BR>
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.<BR>
Thank you for your kind attention.<BR>
Bye,<BR>
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Luca<BR>
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Il giorno ven, 11/09/2009 alle 10.48 +0100, Tony Travis ha scritto:
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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:
<A HREF="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/biobuntu">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/biobuntu</A>
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:
<A HREF="http://www.nugo.org/nbx">http://www.nugo.org/nbx</A>
I currently use 'biobuntu' on an openMosix Beowulf at RINH:
<A HREF="http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk">http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk</A>
Bye,
Tony.
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and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK
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