We have been using Alma Linux 8.x for about two years on 7 Agilent
spectrometers running Open Vnmrj. No problems so far.
Eugenio Alvarado
Director, NMR Lab. Room 3500
Chemistry Department, University of Michigan
930 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055
Voice: (734)-764-9924
On Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 9:41 PM Clemens Anklin via groups.io <clemens.anklin uker.com_at_groups.io> wrote:
> Hi Rajan
>
> these functions are supported by ALMA. This is not a back alley LINUX
> distro. If you look at the alma site you will see that it is used by some
> major players. I.e. AWS and Azure do run ALMA as well.
>
> Clemens
>
>
> On 7/18/2023 7:42 PM, DrSpin wrote:
>
> Hi Ken
> You are right up to the point that the spectrometer host is just a
> dedicated front end and doesn't do much else. But if the Linux box is
> networked into a complex system with some more colorful features (as it
> happens in my case ) such as a LDAP backend for user authentication and
> local cloud storage (within the University or commercial cloud services
> such as AWS or Azure offered by the University) for data storage and
> sharing, it becomes imperative that this Linux system is treated like a
> server and patched and updated regularly.
> If high availability and near-zero sysadmin maintenance is the goal,
> then one can always deploy Topspin on a MS Windows 10/11 system, with the
> caveat that the Windows machines themselves have some kind of enterprise
> level IT support from the institution.
>
> Rajan
>
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 12:18 PM Kenneth Sharp-Knott <kknott_at_vt.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Why do I care if AlmaLinux is not 100% compatible with RHEL as long as
>> Bruker supports it and it will run my spectrometer? Generally, the only
>> thing that computer is doing is running the spectrometer, maybe Firefox an
>> a file transfer software?
>
>
>
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