Re: Open Bioinformatics Foundation CD
Le Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 09:14:19PM +0200, Steffen Moeller a écrit :
> Hello, on http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2007 I just learned about plans to
> come up with a Bioinformatics CD to be distributed by this highly influental
> and representative group of bioinformatitians. They will meet in vienna in
> 1.5 weeks at a conference that I will also attend. I hope to have the
> opportunity to meet the right people and get involved in their discussions.
>
> My understanding is that the building of a Knoppix-derivate is a
> technologically well-established path for such a CD. The OBF may decide for
> additional packages that are not yet in Debian, they may even add bits that
> are not packaged at all and will certainly have some interesting graphics
> shown here and there. But, it would be sad if their CD has no link to the
> packages that Debian-Med offers today. Is there anything you would want me to
> stress and forward to them?
Hi Steffen,
I think that it would be exciting to make that kind of CD "Powered by
Debian-Med". I do not know so much about the technology to put behind,
be it Debian-live, Knoppix, Quantian, Ubuntu-live, or even vmWare
player, but maybe a key to answer this question is to determine what
they want to do with such a CD. One possible technical challenge would
be for web front-ends such as emboss-explorer. It can definitely be
useful either for a desktop CD or a server CD. Such front ends typically
need to write in a temporary directory in /var/www, so there would be
either someting to fix in our packages to make them more adaptable, or
this could be fixed downstream in their CD.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wako, Saitama, Japan
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