[Bio-Linux] AMD64 packages

[Tony Travis]

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:

   https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/biobuntu

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:

   http://www.nugo.org/nbx

I currently use 'biobuntu' on an openMosix Beowulf at RINH:

   http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk

Bye,

   Tony.
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