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I'm toying with the idea of getting a 500GB HDD and installing linux and ISIS on there again. However, I've got a few questions before I do, and hopefully this is the right place to ask them.

1) Does ISIS work with current versions of Linux? The versions that are explicitly supported (Suse 10.1 and Red Hat 5.4) are quite old, and I couldn't even find the installers for them on the OpenSUSE and Red Hat websites. Would it work with other distributions (e.g. Ubuntu?). ISTR having issues with getting the right libraries installed last time I tried using ISIS (which was 5 or 6 years ago). Does anyone here run ISIS on a modern version of Linux, and have you encountered any problems?

2) Is there a standalone Windows-based program that I can use to open cub files output by ISIS?

(I guess a third - rhetorical - question is "why is there not a Windows version of ISIS yet?" )

Dealing with Linux is for me about as much fun as pulling my own teeth out, but the only reason I brave it is to use ISIS so I would like to know if I'm going to run into a lot of problems trying to get it to work. I'm fairly technically competent when it comes to windows (not so much with Linux), but I think should be able to figure out any basic Linux compatibility issues.