Operating systems and Linux distributions

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Operating Systems

Linux

GNU Linux aims to be a free and open-source unix (or unix-like) operating system that will run on most types of computer hardware. Various distributions of GNU/Linux exist that have different package management systems and other features. Most of these are ideal platforms for X-ray crystallography and other scientific computational requirements.


Mac OS X

Irix (SGI)