[Bio-linux-dev] BioLinux derivative

[Tim Booth]

Hi Sasa,

Yes, I'm working on Bio-Linux 8 which is indeed based on 14.04. Most of
the custom modifications are captured within the deb packages, but I do
still have to add some modifications directly to the ISO image when I
re-pack it.  The notes on what I did for BL7 are here:

http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk/tools/bio-linux/other-bl-docs/devinfo

I'll post a modified version for BL8 once I have it working, but there
is not that much difference between the versions, from a developers
point of view, so the stuff linked above mostly still applies.

If I were you I'd start with regular Ubuntu as your base.  Virtually
everything you would want from Bio-Linux is in a .deb so you can just
install the packages as you want them, and things like the rebranding of
the boot menu and the desktop are things you'll want to do for yourself
anyway.

I suggest you download, unpack and take a look at bio-linux-themes-v7,
bio-linux-plymouth-theme, and bio-linux-unity-lens from the repo here:
http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk/bio-linux/dists/unstable/bio-linux/all/

I also have a new new package called bio-linux-cruft-killer that aims to
strip out some of the clutter from the newer Unity desktop.  This needs
a little more testing but it seems to work.

Hope that is useful info.

TIM

On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 17:27 +0100, spaporovic at fh-bielefeld.de wrote:
> 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
> 
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