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Hi Kwan, re: > It has been a while since we have communicated. How have you been? I have been well, thanks! I trust that you are doing well also? re: > I have asked you about this a few years ago. Have you recently tested on > running McIDAS-X on Windows with a UNIX emulator? I would like to run > McIDAS-X at home, and I am trying to weigh the pros and cons on running > McIDAS-X on Windows and Linux at home before committing to one. Costs and > the level of maintenance, as well as internet security issues are the main > concerns. I appreciated your insights. I have never done the work needed to get Unidata McIDAS-X running in Windows. The impact of this is that the McIDAS installation for Windows is SSEC's, and that, in turn, means that it lacks the additions and bugfixes that are available in Linux/Unix version of Unidata McIDAS-X. Perhaps my own experience in use of a Windows machine as the base for running Unidata applications (e.g., McIDAS-X, LDM, GEMPAK, IDV) would be useful for you. For several years now (about 4 I think), my McIDAS development environment has been a CentOS 6.x x86_64 (64-bit) VMware virtual machine that runs inside of VMware Player (which is free for non-commercial use) on my Windows 7 laptop (I7, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, ATI graphics). I like this environment so much, that it would be very hard for me to operate in any other way. I consider that I have the best of both worlds: Windows for Windows things (e.g., MS Office and the IDV running natively) and Linux for Linux things (e.g., McIDAS-X (including remote ADDE serving), LDM (which does _not_ run in Windows), IDV (it runs better directly in Windows since VMware Player does not provide direct access to the video card in the machine; evidently non-free VMware products do), and GEMPAK. The question is if you want to pursue the VM approach, or if you want a single OS solution? Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: JAV-781741 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed