Kevin --

We could put it on DVD-R, and I am thinking about moving to that format
later this year.  But what defines sexy for VistA?  Is it a great
healthcare information system demo or is an attractive screen
background, OpenOffice, games, etc.?  So far, I have been leaning in the
latter direction, but could be persuaded that the former is important.

Captive-NTFS is included in Open VistA.  However it doesn't really work
well yet for VistA.  I know Jan Kratochvil, the developer of
Captive-NTFS, and spent time with him in Prague recently.  Captive-NTFS
is ingenious, and will become more useful in the future to VistA once
some other changes make their way into the Linux kernel.  But for now,
it is not very usable.

An alternative to a USB drive is to create a partition on your hard
drive formatted with a a Linux file system.  (Incidentally, a ball-point
pen with a 256MB USB flash drive is now down to around $30 - and I paid
$60 for the same thing just 6 months ago.  A used car would have kept
its value better!)

-- Bhaskar

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 10:48, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
> --- "K.S. Bhaskar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately,
> > there's not enough room on Knoppix for VistA, so the
> > OpenVistA live CD
> > omits much of what is in Knoppix (e.g., Open Office)
> > and is instead
> > based on Morphix (http://morphix.org).
> > 
> 
> 
> With the increasing availability of DVD-R, couldn't we
> put it onto a DVD disk?  That might make the package a
> bit sexier.  And if we could get the linux Captive
> NTFS interface pre-installed, then we could obviate
> the need for the USB drive.  I know that USB drives
> are getting cheaper, but I don't have one yet and
> don't really have a need to spend the $50 or so needed
> to get one yet.
> 
> Kevin

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