Preferred Linux variation for APS codes?

[lewellen]

Is there a preferred flavor of Linux for compiling & running the APS accelerator code suite?

Or, perhaps as importantly ... is there a particular release that you would *not* recommend for the APS codes, i.e. because of known quirks or problems of with installation?

Thanks much,

- John L.

[michael_borland]

John,

We use CentOS on our cluster, RHEL6 on our workstations and laptops, without any issues. I use various releases of Fedora at home and on my personal laptops, with no issues.

--Michael

[soliday]

Redhat, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Debian and Ubuntu should all be good. Personally I have most familiarity with CentOS because that is what we run on our cluster. You might run into a few issues with bleeding edge versions of Fedora but even that should be ok now that I have released the BuildSDDSOnLinux script which will let you compile your own custom version of SDDSToolKit.rpm. It had become a bit of a hassle releasing our pre-compiled code and ensuring that it would run on every odd variant of Linux.