Debian is a good choice too :)
Debian is all free. It has one of the the most clean development procedures: a new version is only ready... when it is ready! Not when the marketing pressure goes up. It has no deadlines to meet (just like Care2x ?).
Maybe is not so easy configurable as Mandrake for exmaple,
It is easier if you try a user friendlier Debian like Knoppix (for a KDE interface) or Ubuntu Linux (for a Gnome interface).
Anyway, in setting up a Hospital Information System (HIS) you should be very careful. If you do not know very well what you are doing, you would be safer asking someone who knows to do it for you.
After the initial setup Linux will, most certainly, be running your servers in text mode (runlevel 3). That's in part why Linux is so fast and so robust, it will be doing only its server job, not also running some unneeded graphics user interface.
Anytime a human need to do some administration work, he may just do a "init5" to switch to graphic mode (GUI), do whatever he needs to do, and then switch the server back to a level 3.
'open source' distribution, stable and mature, with great community support. I recommend it to all the people who need a robust a professional system.
I couldn't agree more with that. As of November 2004, it seems that Debian Linux is the best distro to support Care2x either as a server, or a client-desktop machine.
(in rare cases where ultimate robustness would be needed you could also consider a BSD based distro like OpenBSD)
Best regards,
J. Antas
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