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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Hi Tony,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Thanks for
the follow-up. Very good news indeed. Any estimate of
release date?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Hi, <span style="color:windowtext">Stefan.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Bye,<br>
<br>
Tony.<br>
<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span
style="color:windowtext"> Tony Travis
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tony.travis@minke-informatics.co.uk"><tony.travis@minke-informatics.co.uk></a>
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<b>Sent:</b> 16 April 2018 13:30<br>
<b>To:</b> Bio-Linux mailing list
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bio-linux-list@bioinformatics.org"><bio-linux-list@bioinformatics.org></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Stefan WECKX <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Stefan.Weckx@vub.be"><Stefan.Weckx@vub.be></a>;
Timms-Wilson, Tracey <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tmt@ceh.ac.uk"><tmt@ceh.ac.uk></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: FW: biolinux<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 16/04/2018 09:13, Timms-Wilson, Tracey
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Stefan WECKX [<a
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<b>Sent:</b> 13 April 2018 09:21<br>
<b>To:</b> Timms-Wilson, Tracey <a
href="mailto:tmt@ceh.ac.uk" moz-do-not-send="true"><tmt@ceh.ac.uk></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> biolinux<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleague,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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Hi, Stefan.<br>
<br>
Tracey forwarded your email to me and I've replied to the
Bio-Linux list in case anyone else has the sanme question.<br>
<br>
Yes, we are planning a release of Bio-Linux 9 but it will be
based on Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS not 16.04.<br>
<br>
The new version of Bio-Linux will include many packages from
the Debian-Med team and will also have "Bioconda"
pre-installed.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
Tony.<o:p></o:p></p>
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