Wow, this is a bit harsh. We had a loaner G5 from Apple for a month or so to do the port, then didn't have a machine with enough RAM to test stuff until early this week. We should have two G5s running recons sometime in the next couple of weeks, and we are showing stuff in the Apple booth at SFN, so hopefully our apple support will get better.
cheers,
Bruce
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Ray Fix wrote:
Hi Kushal,
Exhibit A:
On Oct 18, 2004, at 4:32 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote:
what happens when you run it on a Linux machine?
You might expect a response like this from some random joker on the mailing list (such as me). Take a moment and consider the source here. Hmmm....
Exhibit B:
On Oct 18, 2004, at 6:17 PM, Doug Greve wrote:
I don't know that much about Macs. I assume that they have a /tmp that is writable?
Albeit an honest, thoughtful, well meaning response, however, are some warning bells starting to ring?
Here's the awful truth ... well, okay, just my personal advice to you. If you plan to do anything serious with FreeSurfer, do it on Linux or don't do it at all. You will save yourself a lot of grief. This is coming from my personal experience.
I would recommend getting some ugly, headless Linux box and running it from X from your Mac. You might even be able to get away with doing a little manual editing on the Mac. It isn't ideal but considering FreeSurfer is closed source and is only very lightly tested on the Mac (if at all) it might be the best way to go.
What is your most important goal: A) an accurate cortical reconstruction or B) getting FreeSurfer to work natively on the Mac? In my case, A outweighed B 1000 to 1 so there was no question.
Ray Fix @ Mac/Linux
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