[med-svn] r5545 - trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg

[Andreas Tille]

Author: tille
Date: 2010-12-08 14:23:50 +0000 (Wed, 08 Dec 2010)
New Revision: 5545

Modified:
   trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
Log:
Mention FedoraMedical and openSUSE Medical


Modified: trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
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--- trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex	2010-12-08 10:38:15 UTC (rev 5544)
+++ trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex	2010-12-08 14:23:50 UTC (rev 5545)
@@ -326,9 +326,24 @@
 and an QA team running intense tests regarding software quality (see
 above).
 
+Some similar effort as Debian Med exists in Fedora as
+\printurl{http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/FedoraMedical}{FedoraMedical
+  SIG (Special Interest Group)} and in openSUSE as
+\printurl{http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Medical}{openSUSE Medical}.
+Both projects share the same idea to put medical applications inside a
+larger distribution instead of trying to do the work of the
+distributor themselves in a fork of the distribution in question.  The
+difference to Debian Med (besides of the different distribution) is
+that both teams are much smaller and thus the number of just packaged
+applications is in both cases less than 5\% of the applications
+available for Debian.  Moreover Debian does not distinguish between
+some core distribution and whatever extensions - so if you have a full
+Debian distribution on whatever medium you get all medical
+applications inclusive.
+
 Looking beyond Linux distributions there is also FreeBSD.  The ports
 collection also contains a really nice
-\printurl{http://www.freebsd.org/ports/biology.html}{collection of
+ \printurl{http://www.freebsd.org/ports/biology.html}{collection of
   biological software}.  The remarkable fact here is not the
 underlying operating system (you can easily have Debian with a FreeBSD
 kernel with Debian 6.0) but rather the fact that the same strategy to