Hi Simon, Any Linux distro works exactly the same, I've done Galaxy installs on Fedora, Ubuntu and openSUSE they are all equally good. There is nothing you need specially in any particular distro for Galaxy. Just create a galaxy system user with a home directory like /opt/galaxy or /home/galaxy (whatever you want), make sure this user has preferably Python 2.6.x in its PATH, as the galaxy system user hg clone galaxy-dist into the home directory and follow the instructions to set everything up. Then you can create a system /etc/init.d/galaxy script as simple as this: #!/bin/bash GALAXY_HOME=/opt/galaxy/galaxy-dist # See how we were called. case "$1" in start) echo "Starting Galaxy..." su - galaxy -c "cd $GALAXY_HOME; sh run.sh --daemon" ;; stop) echo "Stopping Galaxy..." su - galaxy -c "cd $GALAXY_HOME; sh run.sh --stop-daemon" ;; restart) $0 stop sleep 3 $0 start ;; *) echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" exit 1 esac exit $? HTH, Leandro On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Simon Lank <Simon.Lank@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi.

We have a new server and are planning to dedicate it exclusively to Galaxy. We've previously set up galaxy on OS X, and Ubuntu.

I'm wondering if you guys have a preferred linux distribution that you know works well for galaxy. We'd like to spend as little time configuring the dependencies as possible (we already spent a while getting things working in os x), so any advice on the most streamlined distribution (from galaxy's perspective) would be appreciated.

Regards,

Simon

Simon Lank Associate Research Specialist O'Connor Lab, WNPRC 555 Science Dr. Madison WI (608) 265-3389

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