4. About Live CD
Work without hard drive
A bootable disc Run system on memory
reboot for default setting LiveUSB is better
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5. • Like general operating system
install procedure.
• Including hardware driver. (for
general hardware device)
• Initialize the system, prepare
for command shell or GUI
interface for user.
A bootable disc
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6. • Doesn’t have to install hard
drive.
• Create a temporary partition
on memory.
• Performance depend on
memory specification and size.
Run system on memory
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7. • Better than optical drive.
• Provide storage space.
• Easy to carry, and it’s
convenient to modify the
current system content.
Live USB
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13. GPL
GNU General Public License
• First open source software license
• Freedom of use
• Freedom of research
• Freedom of distribution
• Freedom of improvement
• Ex. BioPerl
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14. LGPL
Lesser General Public License
• Like GPL
• But LGPL for the “Library”
• Ex. BioRuby, Jmol
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15. BSD
Berkeley Software Distribution
• Release all rights.
• Use software free, including copy,
distribute, edit, commercial use.
• Low law risk.
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16. MIT
Massachusetts Institute
• A.k.a. “X11 License”
• Release all rights, like BSD license.
• Allow developer change the license
agreement content.
• Also suit for documentation files.
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17. Academic User
• For research, non-commercial user
Unavailable
• Developer wasn’t declare the license type.
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18. Advantage
• Save time
• Help starter learning bioinformatic tools
• Promote our lab, research center
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19. Conclusion
• The storage of raw data.
• Disc update time
• Compatible for machine
• License
• Product differentiation : Pro version for sell
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