[Bio-linux-dev] BioLinux derivative

[spaporovic at fh-bielefeld.de]

Hello Tony, hello Tim,

thank you both for your statements and help. I have just take a look on 
the stuff, so it seems possible to do that for me. Well, it will take a 
while until I will have a first working .iso. I would appreciate it if 
it would be possible for you to take a look at it, when it is done. But 
this will be only one point on my TODO-List, beside a start-up founding 
around VirtueMart(I am an author of a commercial instruction video - 
only in german), recording of two new instruction videos, one nearly 
finished, ... and... well, when one of you have found a solution for 
getting more hours out of a 24 hour day, you may give me a hint, if you 
like:). For know I starting in my holiday.

Wish you a nice spring/summer,

Sasa Paporovic

P.S: Hi Tony. I would like to read your How-to. May be you want to send 
me a link, when its done. Greetins, Sasa


Am 22.05.2014 11:23, schrieb 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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