On 13/08/18 14:31, Simon Wagstaff wrote: > Hi Will, > This is great news. > > Very much appreciate the effort you and Tony continue to put into the project. > > If I can help in any way please let me know.
Hi, Simon. Thanks very much for your interest in Bio-Linux and your offer to help. At present, Will is creating a meta-package for "bio-linux-desktop" with help from Andreas Tille and the Debian-Med team. Our plan is to migrate ALL the upstream bioinformatics packages present in Bio-Linux 8 to the versions packaged and maintained by the Debian-Med team and drop all the obsolete NERC/NERC repositories because we don't have access to them since Tim Booth left the project. In any case, We have worked with the Debian-Med team for many years. I attended the Debian-Med 'Sprint' in Barcelona in February, where I put forward plans for Bio-Linux 9 to be based on Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 + a subset of .deb packages from "med-bio": > https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2018/DebianMed2018 Please join the Debian-Med team if you want to help: > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed I've CC'ed your message to the Bio-Linux mailing and Debian-Med lists in case anyone else wants to help create the "bio-linux-desktop" and "bio-linux-server" metapackages. So far, we've successfully remastered the Ubuntu-MATE iso with packages from Debian-Med using "customiser": > https://github.com/kamilion/customizer However, we've not yet managed to enable 'persistence' on a 'live' USB. Thanks, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company No. SC419028 Registered Office: 3 Donview, Bridge of Alford, AB33 8QJ, Scotland (UK) tel. +44(0)19755 63548 http://minke-informatics.co.uk mob. +44(0)7985 078324 mailto:[email protected]
