From w.t.mccaffery at gmail.com  Thu Jun 21 10:39:50 2018
From: w.t.mccaffery at gmail.com (William)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:39:50 -0000
Subject: [Bio-linux-list] Bio-Linux 9
Message-ID: <017989ab-5773-2599-f897-2aecd9ce9cf3@gmail.com>

Hi,

Over the next six weeks I'll be working with Tony Travis to build an 
alpha release of Bio Linux 9, which will see a switch from using the 
NERC repositories to Debian sid, as imported into Ubuntu. We hope that 
this release will have most of the functionality seen in our Bio-Linux 
8.0.8 point release. We are working towards a new version of Bio-Linux 
based on Ubuntu 18.04, with features such as USB persistence using the 
new Ubuntu hybrid ISO's. The new release will be in the form of a 
'bio-linux-desktop' meta-package based on the existing med-bio 
meta-package. We hope that we can increase interest in both Debian-Med 
and Bio-Linux within the scientific community by creating a meta-package 
that when installed, would be small enough to fit on a live, persistent 
USB stick or DVD.

We're grateful to the Debian-Med community for being so welcoming to our 
efforts to transition away from the NERC repositories, and I look 
forward to returning to work on Bio-Linux.

Thanks,

Will