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Hi Stathis, I admit I'm not completely sure what you really intend to do but let me comment on some parts of your mail. On 11/08/2011 10:29 PM, Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) wrote: > Lately I created a small distro based on PCLinuxOS: > > http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=7f817bb18fe314ccfbefd68dcaa4cc9a3d57d37b If you ask me: There are enough distributions targeting at medical care. Moreover: I dount that a single person is able to release something which is really helpful, stable and sustainable. Even if this was a hopefully interesting exercise for you I think you should rather join an existing project than trying on your own. > Well, my main goal with openSUSE is to separate the target groups of > med people. > I'll try to create a survey to find out what doctors need. > My goal with openSUSE would be collaboration between distros and Did you checked out http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Medical I know there is a mailing list of OpenSuSE Medical but there is no traffic at all since the last 6 monthes. Either these people use different communication channels or the project which started with big noise in newstickers is stalled again. There is also Fedora Medical SIG which was basically driven by a Google Summer of Code student. This Summer is over now and my personal impression is that now the project does not get any attention from Fedora people. His call for help on the list remained unanswered. There might be other distros that gain for medical support but I do not know anything comparable to Debian Med which has by far the largest amount of medical applications (probably 20 times more than the others) and even more importantly a strong team you can trust upon to work in commons on problems. > projects, so we'll have the same packages to cover institutions that > run different distro. Could you please be more verbose on why you intend to do this? After thinking a lot of time I realised that my time is more than filled with working on one distribution. Even if you take Ubuntu where it is quite easy to port the ready Debian packages you frequently observe say some friction in the migration of packages. IMHO it would need the dedicated time of one person to make sure to keep Debian and Ubuntu in perfect synchronisation (in both directions). But that's a quite simple deal compared to trying to do this for different distributions. I also doubt that you can do a reasonable selection what distributions you want to support. In short: I'm reading the OpenSuSE Medical (cheap because empty) and Fedora Medical SIG list to watch out for ways for cooperation and I think that those projects could learn from each other and also steal some code for specific packages. But a coverage of the same packages will never be approached nor do I think that this is very reasonable thing to do in the end because the profit for the user is not clear to me. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
