Re: LiveOIO-1.0.0.rc2 released
I greatly appreciate a live-cd demo of a product, and the idea of being able to easily install to a computer is great. However, I have a question-caution. Do you have a clean version update and security update mechanism in place? I'm aware that knoppix is pieced from several sources and your LiveOIO will be pieced from even more sources. So my question becomes, Do you have an apt and apt-sources setup such that you can smoothly handle security and version upgrades via apt? Or, if someone installs to a computer can they easily and safely upgrade the entire setup via the 'apt-get update/upgrade' mechanism? Thanks, Heitzso Andrew Ho wrote: Dear colleagues, I have uploaded a new version of LiveOIO to Sourceforge. You can download it from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9295 LiveOIO-1.0.0.rc2 includes OIO-1.0.1 and an improved interface for starting the OIO Server. Instead of typing startOIO into a shell-terminal window, simply click on the OIO Server Start icon on the KDE Desktop. There is also an OIO Connect icon that launches the Mozilla browser and directly opens OIO's pink interface, without the need to manually entering the URL and username/password. The entire process of running OIO on any PC now only involves 2 mouse-clicks after booting the CD! Installing to hard-drive still only requires opening a shell-terminal window and typing knx-hdinstall. I have also included 1 form (Meeting), 1 schedule, 1 workflow, and 2 patients. I think it is helpful to include more forms on LiveOIO. Please send me forms that you think will be worthwhile including. Anything that I receive by Oct 16, 2003 will have a good chance of becoming part of LiveOIO-1.0.0. My estimate is to include somewhere between 20-30 forms. Current aim is to release LiveOIO-1.0.0.final by Oct 17, 2003 - a week from now. We have time to do .rc3 if someone finds a serious bug. Dennis Halladay's new date, date_time, time component should make it into LiveOIO-1.0.0.final. Vadim and Alex's fracture classification wizard may also make it. Per Mark's strong recommendation, Frozen-Bubble is once again included. I sacrificed the Selflinux documentation (18 mb) since it was entirely in German. :-) Best regards, Andrew
Re: LiveOIO-1.0.0.rc2 released
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Heitzso wrote: ... However, I have a question-caution. Do you have a clean version update and security update mechanism in place? LiveOIO is Knoppix with the addition of a few more Debian packages (PostgreSQL, Zope, etc) + OIO. All packages with the exception of OIO can be upgraded via Debian's existing apt-get infrastructure. For now, OIO can be upgraded by downloading the newest OIO package from our Sourceforge file area. I'm aware that knoppix is pieced from several sources and your LiveOIO will be pieced from even more sources. As far as I know, Knoppix can be upgraded via Debian's apt utility. If the upgrade does not work, then it is considered a bug and should be reported. :-) So my question becomes, Do you have an apt and apt-sources setup such that you can smoothly handle security and version upgrades via apt? Yes, except for OIO - since we don't have a Debian package for OIO yet. That part of the upgrade is still not automated. Or, if someone installs to a computer can they easily and safely upgrade the entire setup via the 'apt-get update/upgrade' mechanism? The answer is yes. But, probability of failure may depend on whether you are running Debian stable, testing, unstable, or mixture :-). Upgrading has always been a challenge. Debian, in my opinion, handles upgrades in the most robust way among all the Linux distributions. However, it is often difficult to stay completely with Debian stable. For example, Knoppix is not 100% Debian stable. Best regards, Andrew --- Andrew P. Ho, M.D. OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes www.TxOutcome.Org
