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Linux for Clinics Alpha Release

Posted by Charles on Wednesday April 04, @06:06PM
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Linux for Clinics has released a Alpha testing release. Known issues... 1. Ubiquity icon is from Ubuntu 2. Initial boot screen on Livecd is still Ubuntu 3. Forgot to remove Gnome-Games 4. Forgot to install the medical dictionary for openoffice.org 5. No LFC upgrade path...Have not implemented our repository yet.

The Aims of the Linux For Clinics Project

The Linux For Clinics (LFC) Project consists of a team of people who have a common interest in health, medicine, humanity and free and open source software (FOSS). Our team represents a community that shares the common ideals of aiding mankind and treating everyone with respect so that they will treat others in kind. This philosophy is represented by the African word 'UBUNTU' which means 'Humanity Towards Others'.

The goals of the project can be divided into three sections:

I Software

To Create a GNU/Linux distribution that is focused on providing reliable clinical laboratory and medical practice software.

Can be customized for specific professions, users and/or departments

Available to everyone, regardless of nationality, language or religion

Will run on any system architecture defined by the Ubuntu Linux kernel, easily and reliably.

Our distribution and software will be customized for medical professionals, but will be available to all who wish to use it.

To create software where there is no software solution.

With the help of physicians and the community at large, specific software needs will be identified and incorporated into the project.

Diagnostic software will be created to help diagnose illness and suggest treatments based on current medical knowledge for both 'western' and 'non-western' medicine.

II Educational Packages

There is a general lack of educational resources within the medical FOSS community, and what does exist is generally unknown to the average student and physician alike. We intend to make these resources more readily available to all by creating a focal point where these resources can be gathered for easy access.

Materials will range from student notes to the most recent developments in every imaginable discipline.

III Social Goals

Because open source projects depend on the input and cooperation of the community, we encourage the professionals in their fields and the common user to request, comment and contribute on our work to improve the quality of our release.

Through this interactivity we hope to accomplish several ends:

To spread the philosophy of 'Humanity Towards Others' (ubuntu)

Provide a free operating system to benefit the health profession, and therefore, all of humanity.

To treat all people with respect.

To encourage everyone to contribute to our project in any way they believe they can.

To assist established aid groups in providing medical software/hardware in less developed regions of the world through your donations.

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