GNUmed Live media (CD,vmware) started

[Sebastian Hilbert]

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...
3.)http://susestudio.com/download/512e770fb3ebb7f6fb6a227006280e69/GNUmed...
4.)http://susestudio.com/download/136f626dc436b9693a09fd665bbeff1f/GNUmed...

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

[Simon Slater]

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...
>
> 3.)http://susestudio.com/download/512e770fb3ebb7f6fb6a227006280e69/GNUmed...
>
> 4.)http://susestudio.com/download/136f626dc436b9693a09fd665bbeff1f/GNUmed...
>  
>  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
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>  https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/medical-sig 
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.

-- 
Regards,
Simon Slater
Registered Linux User #463789. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/

[Sebastian Hilbert]

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(a)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

[Simon Slater]

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
>  
>  http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnumedlive/files/ 
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(a)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.


-- 
Regards,
Simon Slater
Registered Linux User #463789. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/