VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Hodrien (J.H.Hodrien_at_leeds.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 04 2013 - 08:40:47 CDT

On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Joshua Anderson wrote:

> I don't think the distro meets your "ease of installation" requirement for
> the initial setup, but once you have a gentoo system running it is trivial
> to install nvidia drivers and VMD: `emerge nvidia-drivers vmd`. In other
> words, you can install these tools with the system package manager, and get
> all the benefits of that including updates when new releases are available.

It would be broadly true with RHEL or Ubuntu as well.

Certainly with RHEL/CentOS/SL, you just install it, enable the elrepo
repository, and yum install nvidia-x11-drv. Updates would come in as usual.

jh