[Bio-linux-dev] BioLinux derivative

[spaporovic at fh-bielefeld.de]

Hello,

its a task I think about since some years:

I my mind BioLinux is a very good enviroment for bioinformatics. Beside 
this I have some contacts to medical care services. They need some 
different software for their work, so BioLinux is not exactly what they 
want.

In 2012 I have already done a derivative of Ubuntu for Physics. I have 
made this as a little present for some physicist I know. They were 
happy:). But it was not designed for going in the wild, so it is not 
public available.

This time I would like to do this a little bit broader and as already 
mentioned above for medical services.

I am not so sure if I start with Ubuntu again or this time, because it 
has already got a bunch of extra work and refinement, with BioLinux.

Tim, you have derived BioLinux7 in 2012 from precise. I would like to 
start with my work on a more up to date LTS. Well, it is Ubuntu14.04 I 
have an eye on. Have you already started to design BioLinux8, probably 
on the 14.04 basis?

For my project, if I realy do it, I would like to establish a default 
unity-desktop with cairo-dock enabled. Also some additional compiz 
features may be used, but I am careful with this in mind. It should be 
kept at whole as a office desktop. Some medical specific packages like 
CMS(Clinical Managment System)should be integrated from a custom 
repository. I think about to integrate some of them directly in the 
unity-desktop with the web-content abilities of unity, as far as they 
work with a web-interface. It seems to be not very complicated to do 
this, like the ubuntu documentation shows, but keeps as an add-on, 
because of the additional time invest.

Beside this, adoptions to the system, like removing the Ubuntu brandings 
or make some changes to the Software-Center, you have already done for 
BioLinux7, are necessary also.

I remember that there where some documents available from you how to 
make the derivation for BioLinux from Ubuntu, even when they only focus 
on BioLinux6. Do you have this provided also for the more recent 
OS-Version(s)?

Greetings

Sasa Paporovic