Hi Guys,
So need to remove old Centos 5 on a compute node with some more recent distro... The least-effort choice for me is CentOS 7, but maybe you have better ideas?
I have considered
What we are mostly running: R+loads of Bioconductor, bowtie, tophat, bedtools, samtools, bioperl, slurm (as a queueing system).
For now I have been compiling software and building RPMs from the install dir for an easy removal/upgrade/downgrade using fpm tool. Which isn't great, but works.
CRAN + Bioconductor packages were installed using R + biocLite updaters as root.
Ideally, OS support for a given version should be at least 2-3 years (one post-doc time ), or it should be a rolling release. And of course it should have relatively modern libraries, so that there is no problem with compiling software.
Bio-Linux looks good, but lots of tools are outdated, so not much gain.
On my laptop I used to have Fedora and now I am using Arch. They do great as workstations, but they are very frequently updated, so I not sure if it is a good idea to run them on a "production" server.
Any thoughts?
Cheers,
M
So need to remove old Centos 5 on a compute node with some more recent distro... The least-effort choice for me is CentOS 7, but maybe you have better ideas?
I have considered
- CentOS
- Scientific Linux (also RPM-based)
- Bio-Linux (Debian/Ubuntu based)
- Arch ?
What we are mostly running: R+loads of Bioconductor, bowtie, tophat, bedtools, samtools, bioperl, slurm (as a queueing system).
For now I have been compiling software and building RPMs from the install dir for an easy removal/upgrade/downgrade using fpm tool. Which isn't great, but works.
CRAN + Bioconductor packages were installed using R + biocLite updaters as root.
Ideally, OS support for a given version should be at least 2-3 years (one post-doc time ), or it should be a rolling release. And of course it should have relatively modern libraries, so that there is no problem with compiling software.
Bio-Linux looks good, but lots of tools are outdated, so not much gain.
On my laptop I used to have Fedora and now I am using Arch. They do great as workstations, but they are very frequently updated, so I not sure if it is a good idea to run them on a "production" server.
Any thoughts?
Cheers,
M
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