[CIG-LONG] UCBerkeley grad: Short query about platform

[Walter Landry]

f_orellana at berkeley.edu wrote:
> 
>   To the CIG development community:
> 
>    My name is Felipe Orellana, a graduate student from UC Berkeley.
> 
>     I am about to install a Linux operating system in my laptop machine
> and I would like to have some advice from you, because I think I will
> be using some of your software in the nearby future, and also because
> I feel very sympathetic with your development project.
> 
>    The question goes:
> 
>    Do you have any recommendation about any specific LINUX type/version to
> use?  I mean being suitable to handle codes like Gale, Snac (long term
> dynamics)?
> 
>   so, any suitable:  Fedora, Ubuntu, Redhat? any release?

The only significant difference between the distributions for these
applications will be whether they package Petsc or not.  Debian
packages it, and Ubuntu uses Debian's package.  For the others, you
will have to compile Petsc yourself.  If you are not familiar with
Linux, I would recommend Ubuntu.

Cheers,
Walter Landry