Hi Dave, On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 08:35 AM, David E. Konerding wrote:

Some of the release notes for linux are out of date and/or incorrect.

First, the linux release notes say it was compiled on 7.1 and runs on a range of systems. That's fine, but the 'Platform' is listed as 'Red Hat 8.0', which should be 7.1.

I believe you're talking about the 1864 snapshot here, and you're right. Snapshot documentation is not necessarily up to date, but perhaps we should have updated that part. The 1864 snapshot is now withdrawn due to the 1872 production release, so the documentation error is moot. The 1872 release was compiled on RedHat 8.0, so it doesn't run on 7.x and earlier (so for now 7.x systems would have to keep using the 1700 release). Several labs have a lot of 7.x systems, so we will be getting out a version that runs on those sooner rather than later.

Next, your comments on Mesa have problems. The instructions say that 4.0.4 is the latest stable and the development tree is 4.1, and doesn't work. However, I tested 4.0.4, and there are numerous visual errors on my system such as bonds appearing/disappearing during molecule rotation, 4.0.1 does NOT have these problems. Also, 5.0 is the current stable branch, not 4, and has been since November of last year. I haven't tested 5.0, however, so I can't make any comments on its suitability.

Greg has updated the Mesa info in the 1872 Linux instructions. It's now accurate as far as he can tell. Thanks for pointing out these problems. --Eric