From chemistry-request@server.ccl.net Thu Dec 31 06:37:54 1998 Received: from www.ccl.net (www.ccl.net [192.148.249.5]) by server.ccl.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA16797 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 06:37:54 -0500 Received: from socrates.cgl.ucsf.EDU (ross@socrates.cgl.ucsf.EDU [128.218.27.3]) by www.ccl.net (8.8.3/8.8.6/OSC/CCL 1.0) with ESMTP id GAA08144 Thu, 31 Dec 1998 06:31:49 -0500 (EST) From: ross@cgl.ucsf.EDU Received: (from ross@localhost) by socrates.cgl.ucsf.EDU (8.8.6/GSC4.26) id DAA20315 for chemistry@www.ccl.net; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 03:31:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 03:31:51 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199812311131.DAA20315@socrates.cgl.ucsf.EDU> To: chemistry@www.ccl.net Subject: The impending death of Unix I just got a new workstation at one of my jobs. It probably cost all of $1500, with its Sony 21" monitor, SCSI hard drive and 128MB. What OS to run? Well, someone had a FreeBSD boot floppy, so we decided to give it a try because our experience was mainly with Linux, NetBSD, and some commercial Unixes. So we put the FreeBSD floppy in the drive, turned on the machine, and watched it probe and detect the hardware installed (CD, floppy, hard drive, ethernet) as it came up. After booting, we gave it its net id, formatted the hard drive, & started up the FreeBSD install procedure, which downloaded the basic stuff (from ftp.freebsd.org I believe). After the basic OS was installed, we configured Xwindows with the neat new XFree86 config tool (e.g. it shows pictures of the different graphics cards). Then I created accounts & copied over my environment from my old sparc2. That was that. Since then, if I want something that didn't load as default, I use 'locate' to find the dir to go to, and do a 'make install': all the needed packages are automatically ftp'd from their default sites (or secondary if the default fails), patches for my OS/version are applied, and everything is compiled and installed. So far I've done this for Netscape, ssh, xvnews, and xv (xv required about 5 other packages, e.g. a jpeg library). This was on an AMD/K6/300MHz cpu. I know linux and NetBSD support DEC alphas and linux at least runs on sparcs. I believe linux is the same installation-wise (it's been a while since I installed it on my laptop), and CD's are available cheaply for both, in case one doesn't want to do it over the net. Bottom line: these free OS's seem better than the commercial ones. There seems to be both trading and competition between Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD teams (and I imagine there is participation by OS people working for vendors). When I was configging things, some window asked me if I wanted to get freebsd mailings (yes). A couple of weeks later, I got a mail from freebsd.org about a denial-of-service security hole, and applied the indicated 1-line patch to the OS source file in question, rebuilt the OS, & rebooted ok. Some may remember the CCL discussions that went on as people were first discovering the web. The free OS phenomenon seems comparable in its potential to change the computer business landscape, now that the installation and upkeep are becoming so streamlined. Bill Ross From chemistry-request@server.ccl.net Thu Dec 31 08:51:32 1998 Received: from www.ccl.net (www.ccl.net [192.148.249.5]) by server.ccl.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA16849 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 08:51:32 -0500 Received: from majuelo.sdi.uam.es (majuelo.sdi.uam.es [150.244.9.25]) by www.ccl.net (8.8.3/8.8.6/OSC/CCL 1.0) with ESMTP id IAA08497 Thu, 31 Dec 1998 08:45:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from roble.sdi.uam.es (roble.sdi.uam.es [150.244.9.71]) by majuelo.sdi.uam.es (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA15791 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:45:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from brihuega ([150.244.37.59]) by roble.sdi.uam.es with SMTP for chemistry@www.ccl.net; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:45:26 +0100 Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19981231134058.342f4e6a@bosque.sdi.uam.es> X-Sender: depaz@bosque.sdi.uam.es X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:40:58 +0100 To: chemistry@www.ccl.net From: Dr Jose Luis Garcia de Paz Subject: checkpoint of G94 and G98 Hi CCL'ers Happy New Year 1999! The format of the checkpoint files of G94 and G98 is different. I have a commercial and expensive visualization program that handles (and draw results from) G94 checkpoint files but is not able to handle G98 checkpoint files. In bot cases I use the Gaussian formchk utility to generate from the checkpoint file a formatted checkpoint. Does anybody know how to convert a G98 checkpoint file in a G94 one? Is there a program , able to run under unix, to convert a G98 checkpoint in a G94 checkpoint? Regards Jose _____________ Dr. Jose Luis Garcia de Paz |_ / Departamento de Quimica Fisica | | Facultad de Ciencias, C-XIV-602 | 0 / Universidad Autonoma de Madrid < | Telephon: +34-91-397.4957 or 4263 Ctra de Colmenar Km. 15 |_ ___/ Fax: +34-91-397.4512 E-28049 Madrid (SPAIN) \/ E-mail: alt E-mail: http://www.uam.es/qfa/depaz.html http://www.adi.uam.es/~depaz From chemistry-request@server.ccl.net Thu Dec 31 12:43:03 1998 Received: from www.ccl.net (www.ccl.net [192.148.249.5]) by server.ccl.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA16962 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:43:03 -0500 Received: from gatekeeper.es.dupont.com (gatekeeper.es.dupont.com [192.26.233.2]) by www.ccl.net (8.8.3/8.8.6/OSC/CCL 1.0) with ESMTP id MAA10084 Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:36:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from ns1.es.dupont.com (ns1.es.dupont.com [138.196.90.13]) by gatekeeper.es.dupont.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA13107 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:36:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from esvx23.es.dupont.com (esvx23.es.dupont.com [138.196.8.5]) by ns1.es.dupont.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA00993 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:36:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from soperp.es.dupont.com ([138.196.131.89]) by esvx23.es.dupont.com with SMTP for Chemistry@www.ccl.net; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:36:56 -0500 Message-ID: <007c01be34e4$1268d2c0$5983c48a@soperp.es.dupont.com> Reply-To: "Paul Soper" From: "Paul Soper" To: Subject: Re: CCL:G:Cerius2/Gaussview Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:36:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Cerius 2's interface to Gaussian only supports G92 and G94. It is possible to trick Cerius 2 into running G98 instead of G94, but Cerius 2 is still writing G94 input decks and analyzing the results (from the checkpoint file - fchk) as though they were in G94 format. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't. At any rate, none of the features new to G98 are available through the current Cerius 2 interface. Please send me a note if you want the (non-trivial) details on the kludge to make the Cerius 2 Gaussian interface run G98. Paul Soper DuPont Central Research and Development Wilmington, DE 19880-0328 USA From chemistry-request@server.ccl.net Thu Dec 31 14:46:47 1998 Received: from www.ccl.net (www.ccl.net [192.148.249.5]) by server.ccl.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA17021 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:46:47 -0500 Received: from smurf.chem.usu.edu (smurf.chem.usu.edu [129.123.3.85]) by www.ccl.net (8.8.3/8.8.6/OSC/CCL 1.0) with SMTP id OAA10902 Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:40:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (pczyryca@localhost) by smurf.chem.usu.edu (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA02357 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 11:42:02 -0800 Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 11:42:02 -0800 From: "Przemyslaw G. Czyryca" To: chemistry@www.ccl.net Subject: Re: CCL:Re: Linux vs WindowsNT vs Windows95 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Jan Labanowski wrote: > So do not blame HPs and SGIs for doing the right thing [...] Which one? :-) SGI supports development of linux version for their machines as well! Happy New Year, * Przemek Czyryca, pczyryca@smurf.chem.usu.edu *