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>From: Donna Tucker <address@hidden> >Organization: University of Kansas >Keywords: 200507061806.j66I6Djo013141 platforms Hi Donna, re: >My main computer is still running Red Hat 7.3 and I >have been told I really should upgrade it since this >old version has too many security flaws. We agree with this wholeheartedly! >The question >is what to upgrade to. Scientific Linux, which is >supposed to be an upgraded variant of Red Hat, has >been recommended to me. Has this run well with the >GEMPAK and IDV packages or is there another Linux >version that seems to be better? We are using both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Fedora Core 3 Linux. All Unidata packages have been successfully run on FC3 here in the UPC and at user sites. By the way, Fedora Core is the freely-available development side of the for-cost RedHat Enterprise WS distributions. We will be upgrading our systems to Fedora Core 4 in about a month or so after we have finished checking it out for features and bugs. I am running FC4 on a machine at home, and have found some glitches wrt OpenOffice. I have not encountered into any gotchas in running Unidata applications under FC4. Then again, I do not use GEMPAK extensively, so I would not consider GEMPAK as yet being fully supported under FC4. Cheers, Tom -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.