Hi all, While we have had some testing on Windows boxes ( 5 reports so far) we have had only a few reports about running GNUmed in Linux. I assume this is due to the fact that currently we neither provide rpm nor debian packages. Or simply because Tim is right and there are far less people running Linux than I think.
Either way I am planning for the time after my examination and I am constantly looking for ways to make GNUmed installation a piece of cake. Someone recently told me by private mail that no matter what operating system users don't install dependencies if they are not shipped with GNUmed. This made me think. On Windows I have two options. Either use py2exe and compile all dependencies into one big tarball or provide all dependent packages via download or on a CD. I will experiment with this in October. Let's see what I can come up with. But what I am really here to tell you is that maybe on Linux we can be just as smart or even smarter. One guy recently told me that while he doesn't have any objections to free software the only way to get him to install (not use) it was to make a *better* product than anything he is using so far. Gosh I had to create the demo movie in 3 different formats before finally joe average was able to view it. Guess it's true. Now to the exciting part. If you are an ordinary user running Debian or OpenSuSE , or KNOPPIX or Kanotix *please read this article and try it. http://dot.kde.org/1126867980/ I would be happe to hear about your experiences to see if this is useful for GNUmed or not. Again. This is for you end users - not developers. I really appreciated your input. Well maybe there are no endusers on this developer mailing list anyway but who knows. Thanks for your time, Sebastian -- Sebastian Hilbert Leipzig / Germany [www.openmed.org] -> PGP welcome, HTML ->/dev/null ICQ: 86 07 67 86 -> No files, no URL's VoIP: callto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] My OS: Suse Linux. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
