AMBER Archive (2002)

Subject: RE: Amber/Gentoo linux

From: Margaret Cheung (cheung_at_physics.ucsd.edu)
Date: Sun Aug 11 2002 - 18:31:02 CDT

Dear Dr. Wu,

If linux OS is new to you, I'd suggest to buy a
custom-configured system which claimed to be installed with a in-house
version of linux RedHat 7.3. Well, I didn't mean to advertise for Dell,
but we purchased Dell linux clusters and are very happy with it.

Margaret

On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Ross Walker wrote:

> Dear Jianhui
>
> > I will try to rephase my question again. From what I can get from the
> > internet search, amber guys mostly use RedHat or SUSE linux.
> > A computer
> > (linux) guy told me that Gentoo is optimised for cluster and
> > could give
> > me significant performance gain over other linux
> > distribution. Is he is
> > right, how come I never hear that amber guys use Gentoo linux?
>