[answer on list after stripping possibly not public stuff] Hi, On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 08:42:46AM +0100, Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > One way out will be to make one of the (bio-)medical distributions so > superior > that all effort by other distros is stopped at the mere thought of it.
While it was never intended to work against any other distribution I agree with Sebastian that I'd call it insane to choose any other Linux distribution than Debian when working in medical care. The reason for this situation is rather historical: When the Debian Med effort started Debian was the only community driven distribution (Fedora and OpenSuSE did not existed) where I was able to do my own choices and give the directions I needed. So no bashing of other disrtibutions was intended in the past nor is it now. > My advice today ? If one is not going to switch to Debian anytime soon it > would be best to focus on > > a) the few apps one is using him-/herself and maybe packaging them > b) help with translations which is a benefit for all distributions > c) help with spreading the word which could potentially bring new users to > any > distribution I'd subscribe these advises. > > > I'll try to create a survey to find out what doctors need. > > That in itself is useful as it will help every distribution understand what > doctors need. You might want to make different survey for different > specialties. Apropos survey: You might be interested in this link: http://neuro.debian.net/blog/2011/2011-06-27_software_survey.html May be creating a similar survey for medical care and microbiology would be a quite interesting thing to do. 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]
