FW: E-Clerk hardware thoughts

["Jonathan Wolfe" <jwolfe@MIT.EDU>]

Forwarded info from Scott in SLS re: setting up Galaxy.  Summary: we
don't need Oracle, should use PostgreSQL instead, and shouldn't have a
problem using Red Hat 7.3 OR Debian.

-Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Cyphers [mailto:cyphers@sls.lcs.mit.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 8:37 AM
To: Jonathan Wolfe
Cc: Scott Cyphers; Jim Glass
Subject: Re: E-Clerk hardware thoughts

Jonathan Wolfe wrote:

>Scott,
>
>Are you available tomorrow at all to answer some questions I have about
>setting up GALAXY?  Mostly stuff regarding Oracle and Debian.
>  
>
If "tomorrow" is Wednesday, I need to leave around 3:00, so 2:30 would 
be okay.

You don't want Oracle.  PostgreSQL will work fine, is better documented,

friendlier, and easy to install as an RedHat RPM or Debian package.

Option 1 should be more than enough.  I doubt that a generic free Linux 
is going to make very effective use of four processors.

We don't support the version of the compiler that comes with Red Hat 8.0

yet, so that will need to be dealt with.  One way to deal with it is to 
try to put Red Hat 7.3 or Debian on, if the drivers work.