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Re: Linux Help Needed [message #47240 is a reply to message #47134]

Fri, 27 January 2006 18:25

Paul Van Delst[1]
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JD Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:22:01 -0700, David Fanning wrote:
>
>
>> Sid writes:
>
>
>> By the way, I am *really* getting into this. If I wanted
>> to buy a new laptop with LINUX installed and ready to go,
>> what would you LIXUX users recommend? I need a pretty
>> powerful machine for a new proposed project.
>
>
> Installing Linux is usually trivial these days. I'd shop for the
> laptop you want (I hear good things about the new Core Due systems),
> with the features you want, and then head to:
>
> http://www.linux-laptop.net/
>
> to see if there any compatibility issues (sound cards are common). Mostly
> things do indeed just work.
>
> The reason IDL complains is that it needs an old, old version of the C
> library and other libs, which most distros offer as a "compatibility"
> library install. You can blame RSI for this, building against what is
> essentially a 4 year old library set (not that it doesn't work).

That's just laughable.

> If the Macbook Pro's are as nice as they seem to be, getting one of
> those, and dual-booting linux/OSX would seem a rather nice solution.
> Redhat recently officially announced support for Mac Intel. It would
> be interesting to see how much Linux/IDL 6.2 cleans up OSX/IDL 6.2
> Rosetta (assuming it runs), and then repeat the comparison when they
> finally compile IDL for OSX/Intel later this year (hopefully).
>
> I have friends in the laptop market now, and no clear RSI statement on
> their commitment to support this new architecture is unsettling to
> them. "We'll look into and get back to you" is less than
> confidence-inspiring.

From my uneducated viewpoint, RSI always seems to be playing catch-up in this regard.

On the plus side (and off on a tangent - crikey, it's late), I bit the bullet and spent an
hour plotting gobs and gobs of data using iPlot and, somewhere, somehow, I managed to
figure out how to use it effectively despite the clunkiness of the "Visualization
Browser". Even with the slowness of the application I guess I'm, well, impressed. (off I
go into the corner to eat my hat.... )

paulv

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		Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Mon, 23 January 2006 20:17
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Fri, 27 January 2006 14:00
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: swisswuff on Sat, 28 January 2006 09:51
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: jeyadev on Fri, 27 January 2006 15:17
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: jeyadev on Fri, 27 January 2006 13:22
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: savoie on Fri, 27 January 2006 12:18
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Michael Wallace on Fri, 27 January 2006 12:05
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Greg Hennessy on Fri, 27 January 2006 11:47
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: JD Smith on Fri, 27 January 2006 17:55
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Benjamin Hornberger on Fri, 27 January 2006 11:35
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Michael Wallace on Fri, 27 January 2006 11:03
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Fri, 27 January 2006 09:58
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Karl Schultz on Fri, 27 January 2006 09:19
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Ken Mankoff on Fri, 27 January 2006 07:50
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: K. Bowman on Fri, 27 January 2006 07:27
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Nigel Wade on Fri, 27 January 2006 01:45
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: K. Bowman on Thu, 26 January 2006 12:57
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: David Fanning on Thu, 26 January 2006 11:22
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: JD Smith on Fri, 27 January 2006 17:32
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Sid[1] on Thu, 26 January 2006 11:12
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Foldy Lajos on Sat, 28 January 2006 02:00
		Re: Linux Help Needed By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 27 January 2006 18:25

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