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Surfing to Nature's blog domain gives a RedHat Enterprise Aapche default page. Linux is more common than we thought...

Congratulations on an exciting new site, it looks like it's beginning to really shape up!

I figured maybe I can liven it up a bit with a small (beta) debut here. Maybe you'd like to have a look at my new (totally rewritten) software for bioinformatics analysis; it supports analyzing almost every type of file through some advanced information theory techniques. Try it and see, it's easy to use:

complearn.org

There have been several passing references to Ubuntu in comments recently, so I thought I'd ask the question: what have people's experiences been?

I've been running Hoary on my work box, and Warty on my old-ish Dell laptop at home. Both have been fine, and work out of the box during install. (Anyone remember the pain of installing Debian Potato back in the days?)

About the only gripe I have is that the freeze policy on stable means the distro gets out of date quickly - so that useful packages tend to have old versions. The most annoying example for me is R, which in Warty is 1.9, whereas current is 2.1.

hi i am ashok reddy, interesting on bioinformatics.

ClusterControl: a web interface for distributing and monitoring bioinformatics applications on a Linux cluster Gernot Stocker, Dietmar Rieder, and Zlatko Trajanoski Bioinformatics 2004 20: 805-807.

The authors describe a web interface for administering binf apps on a cluster.

The University of Puerto Rico High Performance Computing facility (HPCf) and
the Puerto Rico Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN-PR) are
pleased to announce the release of bioknoppix.

A new guide for those migrating to Linux as a research base. Everything you need to become comfortable in Linux. I suspect it's probably a worthwhile read for the more experienced but not LinuxGods amongst us (like me...).

Yes, we are all still here. It's quiet because Nodal's main contributors are all very busy just now: 2 are nearing the end of the PhD road and you all know how that is.
In the news, our very own Sydney supercomputer is launched, 108th in the top 500. We should all be getting accounts on this thing soon, so stay tuned for reports of how it performs (administratively as well as computationally).
If any of you feel like sifting through 150+ bioinformatics abstracts, feel free, otherwise I might just delete the lot. It's a broken system, but we don't have time to fix it.

here is an enthusiastic biotechnolgist trying to make a mark in the field of genomics

I've just finally pulled out some Emboss packages for Debian GNU/Linux that I feel confident enough to hand out... for now, have a look at my Debian/Emboss page .