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hwlau

6:46 PM

Is it typical to have ten pages supplemental materials for PRL while the main text is only 4 pages?

Kyle Kanos

@hwlau I don't know about typical, but it's not completely abnormal.

hwlau

ic, but most of them don't have supp. at all.

@KyleKanos Just read that journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.133901

user54412

7:07 PM

anyone have any recommendations for a linux distribution to use on a home computer?

hwlau

@ChrisWhite ubuntu, linux mint?

user54412

@hwlau ubuntu sounds like a safe bet but I really don't know anything about linux

user54412

the only systems I've ever worked with I never had a choice in - it was whatever was installed on the machines I had

Kyle Kanos

Ubuntu is the introductory version of Linux

If you're familiar enough with Unix, you might not want that

(lots of bloatware stuff on Ubuntu)

user54412

@KyleKanos well, I've never done anything except scientific computation on a 'nix system, but I've done a lot of that

Kyle Kanos

7:12 PM

I personally like RHEL-based ones like Scientific Linux, Fedora, CentOS

hwlau

@ChrisWhite Yes, it has an ok user interface, so you can learn other thing later

such as command line/ file tructure

@KyleKanos I don't think they are very friendly to new user

@ChrisWhite I thought you should have tried it already because you know computational stuff

Kyle Kanos

@hwlau I know, hence my statement "If you're familiar enough with Unix, you might not want [introductory Linux]"

Ultimately, I think it depends on what it is you want, @ChrisWhite

Do you want something for streaming movies, just writing documents, etc

user54412

@hwlau I'm plenty fine with scripts and terminals and whatever else is needed for running large-scale simulations on clusters, but I've never dealt with high-level, everyday stuff (web browsers, movie players, anything with a GUI basically)

Kyle Kanos

@ChrisWhite Firefox is Firefox is Firefox. That stuff is identical on all platforms, IMO.

user54412

@KyleKanos I'm planning on dual-booting with windows so I have something I know how to do everything in, but I want to play around with my own linux OS

user54412

7:19 PM

@KyleKanos so what does scientific linux have that you like?

hwlau

@KyleKanos Firefox is, but Flash is not. those close source stuff

Kyle Kanos

@ChrisWhite Two things: (1) Intel Compiler support (Ubuntu flavors & RHEL-based distros support that) and (2) uses Kernel 2.6

@hwlau Who uses close-sourced stuff? Isn't that the point of Linux?

hwlau

@ChrisWhite For simply trying, you may consider to install it in virtual machine, but it is much slower

@KyleKanos I am pretty sure the Flash plugin for firefox is closed source

@ChrisWhite Different distribution has different pre-installed package, and they will set everything up, such as configurations, for you. You don't have to worry to customize yourself.

Kyle Kanos

@hwlau Despite its notoriety, Flash is still available for Linux and will be for 3 more years

And when HTML5 comes out at the end of the year, Flash will be entirely moot

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