[TriLUG] Migrating to Fedora

[Sean Korb via TriLUG]

I would also recommend CentOS if possible but I also recognize that
many scientific applications require a particular operating system and
others may not be supported.  Looking at
http://web.mit.edu/x-ray/Ruf_2015.pdf that may well be the case and
Fedora would be the best route if they have instructions for
installation.  If you are required to use Fedora I would try Docker as
well since this will make it easier to... ummm... isolate it.  But it
might make I/O slightly more complicated if you are using it with a
data acquisition card.  If that is a separate system that just sftps
or robocopies the data then no problem.

If you have more than 2 or 3 workstations I would build a single
dedicated NFS server for all your data and a RAID array, and you can
more easily set up backup policies regarding it and back up the
workstations data to it as well as managing offsite backups from a
single point.  If you have multiple NFS servers and clients it can
drive you mad with potential cross mounts.


sean

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Paul Boyle via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion Roger.  However, I don't know if that will address the issue (which I didn't explain in my first email).  I've tried installing the vendor's new software (called Apex3) on an OpenSuSE system.  The main problem is a run time problem: Apex3 is a Python application, and rather than having the software as a bunch of modules which integrate with the natively installed stock Python interpreter, the vendor supplies their own specially hacked Python interpreter (called bnpython).  This causes problems in that bnpython can't find certain stock modules like hashlib (which are installed with my native Python installation).  There might be some Python administration wizardly which might be able to get bnpython looking in the right places for the standard modules, but I don't know it.
>
> I thought I could make my life easier if I just buckled under and used Fedora.
>
> Paul
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Roger W. Broseus <RogerB at bronord.com>
> Sent: December 26, 2016 11:44:37 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Migrating to Fedora
>
> Paul,
>
> Given your applications, have you considered Scientific Linux?
>     https://www.scientificlinux.org
>
> The National Institutes of Standards and Technology is, I believe, into Linux. I have a couple of contacts there that might be of help.
>
> --
> Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
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>
> On 12/26/2016 09:43 AM, Paul Boyle via TriLUG wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am considering a moving my laboratory's linux workstations from running OpenSuSE 13.1 to the current Fedora distribution.  The reason is that my lab runs scientific instrumentation (single crystal X-ray diffractometers) which run under Linux.  The old version of the instrument vendor's software was originally intended to run on RHEL.  I was able to make it run under OpenSuSE.  The newest version of the instrument vendor's software has major changes which prevent me from making it work on OpenSuSE.  The vendor currently supports Fedora only.
>
> I use NFS pretty extensively in my lab's computing environment for moving data between the various Linux boxes. So, here is my question:  Should I use Fedora Workstation or Fedora Server?  I guess another way of putting is the question is:  Is it possible (and easy) to install NFS server software on Fedora Workstation?
>
> Thanks for any guidance.
>
> Paul
>
>
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