In article <920896592.854697 at marvin>,
Jan Eggermont <Jan.Eggermont at med.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
>Hello
>>I am looking for people who have experience with running the Linux version
>of the Staden package. specific questions are
>- what are the minimal hardware requirements?
We run Gap4 very happily on 16MB P133 systems. I expect that a 486
would do, as long as it had sufficient RAM.
>- any specific comments/problems with installation, maintenance,
upgrading?
I had a lot of difficulty compiling from scratch on Linux. The binary
distribution works OK though. There seem to be some odd cosmetic
problems in Gap4, but nothing fundamentally broken.
>- does one need a local copy of the various DNA/prot databases?
We don't use those parts of the package, but from experience with
other database searching tools, the performance will dive if you're
NFS mounting your data.
Tim.
