[Bio-Linux] AMD64 packages

[Luca Venturini]

Dear Tony,
                    I have subscribed to the blueprint as you suggested.
The link at nugo.org you provided, however, does not exist, at least
according to my dns.
Bye,

Luca

Il giorno ven, 11/09/2009 alle 12.37 +0100, Tony Travis ha scritto:

> Luca Venturini wrote:
> > Dear Tony,
> >                    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.
> 
> Hello, Luca.
> 
> Development of 'biobuntu' did stop when Bio-Linux 5.0 was released, but 
> I attended a meeting between NuGO (European Nutrigenomics Organisation), 
> NTC (Dutch Toxicogenomics Consortium) and NEBC in Oxford last month to 
> discuss collaboration on core features of a Linux-based bioinformatics 
> workstation or server that we can customise for our respective users.
> 
> One possibility that we discussed was opening up Bio-Linux 'core' 
> development to the Ubuntu developer community, via the blueprints and 
> PPA. My 'biobuntu' blueprint could be a starting point for this, but I 
> also want to develop it for clustering instances via Kerrighed/XtreemOS.
> 
> Please subscribe to my blueprint if you're interested.
> 
> > 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.
> > Thank you for your kind attention.
> 
> You could use a 32-bit chroot to run a Bio-Linux userland under a 64-bit 
> kernel. I've thought of doing this myself, but I've not actually tried 
> it yet. NuGO currently has 31 NBX Opteron servers, mostly running 32-bit 
> 'biobuntu', but we are upgrading them to "NuGO-Linux" a Bio-Linux 5.0 
> derivative customised for NuGO. If you're intererested, you can download 
> the latest 'alpha' version of "NuGO-Linux" from:
> 
>    http://nbx1.nugo.org/biobuntu
> 
> I'm creating USB sticks from this, but we encountered problems using 
> ext2 filesystems on out USB sticks created using bio-linux-usb-maker.
> 
> If you burn the nugo-linux-20090910.iso to DVD and try to create a USB 
> stick using the hardy backport of Ubuntu "usb-creator" that is installed 
> on it, you need to make a symbolic link to the CD device e.g.:
> 
>    ln -s /dev/scd0 cdrom.iso
> 
> This is because "usb-creator" doesn't detect the CD/DVD when running in 
> a 'live' session: Something that bio-linux-usb-maker does do very well!
> 
> Bye,
> 
>    Tony.
> -- 
> Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition
> and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK
> tel +44(0)1224 712751, fax +44(0)1224 716687, http://www.rowett.ac.uk
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