Hi all,
To put some meat behind the effort to create a medical linux distribution I have started to produce a number of live media.
Currently available are:
1.) Debian based Live-CD (Xfce-based) 2.) openSUSE based Live-CD (KDE4-based) 3.) openSUSE based virtual machine (vmware/virtualbox) 4.) openSUSE based disk image
Downloads: 1.)http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/InstallerGuideHomeShort 2.)http://susestudio.com/download/4d771f3b6a19b08397920f4513c9ab88/GNUmed_Live.... 3.)http://susestudio.com/download/512e770fb3ebb7f6fb6a227006280e69/GNUmed_Live.... 4.)http://susestudio.com/download/136f626dc436b9693a09fd665bbeff1f/GNUmed_Live....
The openSUSE downloads will expire in 7 days. Unless I find some hoster where I can store the images I cannot continously provide them. Suggestions ?
All versions include a fully configured GNUmed 0.6.2 that can access a local (as in included and running) GNUmed database.
These images are only proof of concept and are intended to serve as a nucleus for a medical linux distribution (that means packaging and including more packages)
Have a look and identify areas that can benefit from a concerted effort (e.g. wallpaper, bootsplash, firefox plugins)
Sebastian
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 15:57 +0100, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
Hi all,
To put some meat behind the effort to create a medical linux distribution I have started to produce a number of live media.
Currently available are:
1.) Debian based Live-CD (Xfce-based) 2.) openSUSE based Live-CD (KDE4-based) 3.) openSUSE based virtual machine (vmware/virtualbox) 4.) openSUSE based disk image
Downloads: 1.)http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/InstallerGuideHomeShort 2.)http://susestudio.com/download/4d771f3b6a19b08397920f4513c9ab88/GNUmed_Live.... 3.)http://susestudio.com/download/512e770fb3ebb7f6fb6a227006280e69/GNUmed_Live.... 4.)http://susestudio.com/download/136f626dc436b9693a09fd665bbeff1f/GNUmed_Live....
The openSUSE downloads will expire in 7 days. Unless I find some hoster where I can store the images I cannot continously provide them. Suggestions ?
All versions include a fully configured GNUmed 0.6.2 that can access a local (as in included and running) GNUmed database.
These images are only proof of concept and are intended to serve as a nucleus for a medical linux distribution (that means packaging and including more packages)
Have a look and identify areas that can benefit from a concerted effort (e.g. wallpaper, bootsplash, firefox plugins)
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G'day Sebastian, This was my first play with GnuMed and it looks really good. My wife, who is our chief vet and not very adept to computing, thought she could get to use the interface and forms quite easily.
The OpenSUSE Build service seems a very useful tool for quickly putting things together for samples, surveying or testing. The Live CD ran a bit slow, but that was probably our 4 year old laptop. I may be able to host images like this later in the year - first I need more hard drive space in the server and a static ip, which will come when we get our web site up and running. Give me a few months.
However, GnuMed as it is, is a bit limiting for us personally as a veterinary clinic - mainly because we need to separate the patients from the billable entities (owners), but that is just our niche.
We did not mind the OpnSuse wallpaper. How many clinics or clinicians would change that to suit themselves anyway? Along those lines, would clinics like their own logos as lockable screensavers? From the splash screen aspect, since many employees will be coming from a windows background, would a splash screen with indications to Linux (Tux up Aesculap's staff?) and free software be appropriate, or is that too political?
Hope that helps some.
Am Donnerstag 18 Februar 2010 00:04:36 schrieb Simon Slater:
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 15:57 +0100, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
Hi Simon,
This was my first play with GnuMed and it looks really good.
Thanks fot taking a look.
My wife, who is our chief vet and not very adept to computing, thought she could get to use the interface and forms quite easily.
That is good to hear.
The OpenSUSE Build service seems a very useful tool for quickly putting things together for samples, surveying or testing.
That is why they were made. Those are openSUSE images because SUSE studio is so easy to use.
The Live CD ran a bit slow, but that was probably our 4 year old laptop.
I hope so. I only test the isos in vmware player (as a virtual cd drive)
I may be able to host images like this later in the year - first I need more hard drive space in the server and a static ip, which will come when we get our web site up and running. Give me a few months.
Thanks for the kind offer but this problems has gone away. I have registered with sourceforge and there is now a project at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnumedlive/files/
However, GnuMed as it is, is a bit limiting for us personally as a veterinary clinic - mainly because we need to separate the patients from the billable entities (owners), but that is just our niche.
I understand. However that is the same for children. We have not really worked on this but one could extend GNUmed to have patients and owner available seperately as it is the same for homanoid children.
This can best be raised at gnumed-devel@gnu.org. I remember there was a thread on this for vets a while back.
We did not mind the OpnSuse wallpaper. How many clinics or clinicians would change that to suit themselves anyway?
Not many people are going to change that. However if someone comes around with a nice general purpose health related wallpaper it is no problem to plug this in.
Along those lines, would clinics like their own logos as lockable screensavers?
That is an idea. I have never played with screensavers on Linux but I guess it is not too hard to configure this during deployment to a customer.
From the splash screen aspect, since many employees will be coming from a windows background, would a splash screen with indications to Linux (Tux up Aesculap's staff?) and free software be appropriate, or is that too political?
Well the Free software aspect is more important to me. However a tux connected to some sort of medical instrument/icon maybe along a GNUmed , a devel and whatnot could be an eye catcher. However how often are we going to boot ?
Hope that helps some.
That sure helped. Hopefully it will ignite some more input. After all it is quite develish announcing an openSUSE Live CD on a Fedora mailing list :-) I am convinced that this can be done for Fedora just as easy so I have no worries. To me the content is more imprtant then the actual distro. The content is what we can work on together.
Sebastian
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 08:21 +0100, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
Thanks for the kind offer but this problems has gone away. I have registered with sourceforge and there is now a project at
Sounds good.
However, GnuMed as it is, is a bit limiting for us personally as a veterinary clinic - mainly because we need to separate the patients
from
the billable entities (owners), but that is just our niche.
I understand. However that is the same for children. We have not really worked on this but one could extend GNUmed to have patients and owner available seperately as it is the same for homanoid children.
This can best be raised at gnumed-devel@gnu.org. I remember there was a thread on this for vets a while back.
I'll check the archives. I don't mind getting involved in a project to help it along, but my programming skills are basically non-existant. What I have done in the past has been in research work where I had to dig out someone else's old code and change it for a new experiment and it was always in different languages like basic, cobol and fortran77.
From the splash screen aspect, since many employees will be coming from a windows background, would a splash screen with indications to Linux (Tux up Aesculap's staff?) and free software be appropriate, or is that too political?
Well the Free software aspect is more important to me. However a tux connected to some sort of medical instrument/icon maybe along a GNUmed , a devel and whatnot could be an eye catcher. However how often are we going to boot ?
True.
Hope that helps some.
That sure helped. Hopefully it will ignite some more input. After all it is quite develish announcing an openSUSE Live CD on a Fedora mailing list :-)
Probably a lot on the Fedora users list, where I've been ridiculed for asking a question that was too simple, although I just needed a quick answer. But no trouble here I think.
I am convinced that this can be done for Fedora just as easy so I have no worries. To me the content is more imprtant then the actual distro. The content is what we can work on together.
That is how I think. In another thread I outlined why I have chosen Fedora, but streamlining the paperwork for our business is more important than distro. So if one thinks like that, I'm sure that there are many more out there somewhere that just want good useful software.
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