[Bio-Linux] Bio-Linux update

[Dan Swan]

Hello all,

This is just a reminder to you all that Red Hat 7.3, which Bio-Linux 1.X 
and 2.X were based on is no longer being updated with security patches. 
  Consequently this is another call for people to take up upgrade slots 
as we phase out support for versions of Bio-Linux prior to 3.0.  Those 
of you on non-EG grants are more than welcome to join this upgrade path 
as we are very grateful for all the input you have given us into the 
project as early external adopters.

The Bio-Linux team is currently working on ways to provide Bio-Linux 
more widely available.  The project now has space at bioinformatics.org 
the biggest resource for Open Source bioinformatics.  We may migrate the 
mailing lists there at some point, but the upshot of this is that 
colleagues external to the programme who wish to get Bio-Linux will be 
able to do so from this site.  The site also supports a bug reporting 
system that we might start using for reporting issues.  We will soon be 
issuing a new SOP for Bio-Linux installs external to the EG community.

We are also considering major changes to the underlying OS of Bio-Linux 
for future versions.  This has come about by Red Hat's migration towards 
the enterprise and the spin off of Fedora.  This means we are currently 
in the process of evaluating other Linux distributions in order to give 
Bio-Linux the most supported, most stable base we can.  Currently our 
list of candidates is SuSE, Fedora (Red Hat), Debian, Knoppix (Debian), 
Morphix and BioBrew (Red Hat).  If anyone has reasonable points they 
would like to make for, or against these choices, then we would be very 
interested to hear them.

There have been minor updates to Bio-Linx 3.0 since the last mailing. 
Your Yum logs (/var/log/yum.log*) should include:

gaim 1:0.75-0.9.0.i386
mc 1:4.6.0-7.9.i386
slocate 2.7-2.i386
cvs 1.11.2-13.i386
kdepim-devel 6:3.1-6.i386
tcpdump 14:3.7.2-7.9.1.i386
kdepim 6:3.1-6.i386
libpcap 14:0.7.2-7.9.1.i386
ethereal 0.10.0a-0.90.1.i386
ethereal-gnome 0.10.0a-0.90.1.i386

regards,

Dan

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