Em terça-feira, 29 de novembro de 2011, Jason Swails:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I am planning a class on molecular dynamics applications, and was
>> thinking on having an Amber installation on a Linux Live-CD, so that
>> it could be installed on the computers to be used by the student
>> during the class, and making sure all students have exactly the same
>> environment.
>>
>> Notice the students will not take the CDs home with them... It's just
>> to easily prepare a computer on a lab for the class. A kind of a
>> portable Amber Workshop, if you will.
>>
>> So, I was wondering:
>>
>> 1. Is there any legal / licencing issues I should be aware of?
>>
>> 2. Any ideas on what Linux distribution would be better suited for this
CD?
>>
>> 3. Has anyone done anything like that before and would be willing to
>> share the experience?
>>
>
> As Adrian mentioned, I put one together for the workshop in Barcelona.
> It's literally just an ISO of a LiveCD Linux Distro that has all of Amber
> pre-installed built on Ubuntu.
>
> You can burn it to a CD or load it to a USB drive and it should work fine
> (it has both the serial and parallel builds built). It also has the
source
> code ripped out for the paid parts so there shouldn't be any licensing
> issues on Amber's end that I know of (Dave may want to chime in here).
The
> only issue is that I've named it "AMbuntu", which I think I have to ask
> Ubuntu permission to do, legally. They shouldn't have a problem with it,
I
> don't think. (It also has the ability to install Ubuntu ripped out as
> well, so it can't be used to install on a computer -- live boot only).
>
> It does have the Barcelona website loaded for it, which could easily be
> changed (I think I modified one quickly for the Shanghai workshop that
Ross
> and Andy put on). The ISO is on one of Ross's servers, and I have a copy
> locally as well, which we're more than willing to share.
>
Thanks, that is precisely what I'm looking for. Do you mind making it
available somewhere I can download it?
Gustavo.
--
Gustavo Seabra
Professor Adjunto
Departamento de Química Fundamental
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Fone: +55-81-2126-7417
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