Fernando asked the 'makers' of AIPS about issues in debian:

Subject: Re: [daip] aips on debian Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:59:03 -0700 From: Eric Greisen <egreisen@…> To: Fernando Camilo <fernando@…> CC: daip@… References: <43B2C16B.7010202@…>

Fernando Camilo writes:

  > Could you please let me know whether there are any known issues for AIPS
  > running under Linux Debian 3.1 (sarge)?  We are building a new Linux-based
  > computing network here at the Columbia Astrophysics Lab and want to make
  > sure that the key packages will work under our proposed operating system.
  >

So far as I know there are no issues. But I do not know if it has been tested properly either. We offer AIPS in both source-code and binary versions. The former mostly has issues with compilers, where some versions of GNU for example simply make many mistakes in optimization. The latter is build with the Intel compiler on a RedHat 9 host. It is possible that some issues might arise from OS incompatibilities. In fact, we are seeing serious degradation of AIPS TV performance on those machines that have been "upgraded" to RedHat Enterprise. Whether Enterprise just does not like standard sockets especially Inet loopback sockets or whether load modules build with an Enterprise system would work better, we do not yet know.

Eric Greisen