[Bioperl-l] operating systems and bio-computing

[Thomas Keller]

Greetings,
This is a generic question about bio-computing platforms and operating 
systems. I have an SGI running IRIX 6.5, I got it because the imaging 
service my core facility runs was using the SGI for image processing. 
Since then the company whose software we use has switched to Redhat 
Linux on a PC since it is so much cheaper. I really like IRIX, but feel 
that it is not being supported/developed like linux or the mac OS X, at 
least I'm finding it difficult to install new modules because the C 
library requirements, for example are not available for IRIX.

Could the many knowledgeable folk of this list share their wisdom on 
the topic of what platform(s) they see as being the easiest to support 
and develop in the area of bioinformatics?

Thanks,
Tom K.

Thomas J. Keller, Ph.D.
Director, MMI Core Facility
Oregon Health & Science University
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd.
Portland, OR, USA,   97239

http://www.ohsu.edu/core