Re: NHSbuntu

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Wed, May 10, 2017 at 11:39:22AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> I've just read about NHSbuntu[1] and created a forum entry[2] offering
> cooperation.
 
> [1] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/volunteers-tailor-ubuntu-linux-uk%E2%80%99s-health-service
> [2] https://www.openhealthhub.org/t/debian-med/945

Thanks Andreas for the news and great to see that a good contact was established.

One of the main challenges for the NHSbuntu project will be to make sure that
the NHSbuntus installed today will be upgraded when security support will be
discontinued.  The recent ransomware storm just highlighted how much critical
infrastructures were running a completely outdated version of their operating
system, in this case Windows. 

On our side we provide means to install latest software on old systems, but it
is still challenge to provide old software on recent systems.  It also goes
against a lot of good practices that I do not have to remind here, but for more
and more specialised software, far from the core of the system, it can respond
to a demand and help our users to run in safer environments, by giving them an
upgrade path for the components of their system that are the most likely to be
attacked.  Or maybe I have too much of an old-style point of view and the whole
problem is to be solved with containerisation ?

Well, that was my 2cent thoughts...

Have a nice Sunday,

Charles

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan