on which operating system you use openfoam?
I'm thinking about making a package (rpm, deb, ebuild) for freefoam (fork of openfoam with better building system). it is interesting what would be more useful for community. please choose linux distribution(s) where you use or would like to install openfoam. multiple choice is possible! by "use" I do not necessarly mean "compile", since you can also use binary build or your administrator did it for you. if your distribution is not mentioned or it is "other", please leave a comment in the thread. actually, any comments are welcome!
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I voted Ubuntu where I do the postprocessing, but I actually use OpenFOAM on a cluster with scientific linux 5.3 (RHEL based).
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I voted Ubuntu. But it would be nice to see open(free)foam in gentoo because of Gentoo Prefix http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/ It allows to unroll a convenient package system in unprivileged environment (without root access on the system).
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2. thanks a lot for the hint! it is really useful. |
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There is some effort starting to create a set of packages and a distribution for scientific applications based on openSUSE, as the openSUSE community already did for educational applications. It is still "work in progress". I'm pushing to do that, and I will take care of a part of the project myself, so if you want to join, you're surely welcome :D Best, Alberto |
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there is a message here I've posted almost one year ago with statistics on OF forum. I was just curious is there something new? nothing:
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Forum Threads Posts hallo, people! do you think it is normal?! maybe it is better to resolve this issue, instead of writing cookbooks, then patches to cookbook, then patches to the patches?.. |
Interesting poll which I guess reflects the kind of people using OpenFOAM (or perhaps just those that respond to polls like this). As someone mentioned earlier, I would expect RHEL/Centos/ScientificLinux (all effectively the same thing) to be by far the most dominant version of Linux on scientific computers.
What proportion of people use OpenFoam on local desktop type machines and what proportion on server type clusters? If the former is dominant then perhaps that would explain the preference for Ubuntu. |
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