NHSbuntu – an OS for the NHS [video]
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NHSbuntu – an OS for the NHS [video]
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Re: NHSbuntu – an OS for the NHS [video]
#2Good on them for making it feel familiar, but stealing all those icons straight up seems pretty risky.
Re: NHSbuntu – an OS for the NHS [video]
#3Nice idea, but any links whatsoever to the NHS or permission to use their logo? There's no sign of such yet on the site.
If you really want to do this, one thing you'll need is to make sure existing vertical market software works perfectly in Wine - e.g. Informatica, which is stupendously popular in England and Scotland and is officially supplied by NHS Wales.
Re: NHSbuntu – an OS for the NHS [video]
#4its a very good idea – not a good name choice. Healthbuntu maybe at a push.
Re: NHSbuntu – an OS for the NHS [video]
#5How long was this in the making and also it must have been very beneficial that last weeks cyber attacks occurred?!
Re: NHSbuntu – an OS for the NHS [video]
#6It's nice to see something like this being proposed, but, the NHS probably have a tonne of bespoke software running on top of Windows, all of which would need to be ported. And given the fact that they don't have the funding to even keep their existing systems patched and up-to-date, a full-on migration is out of the question, unless the cash is raised...
Re: NHSbuntu – an OS for the NHS [video]
#7Does this solve any of the problems that hospitals would have previously had, according to other posters on HN, wherein updating software can render a piece of equipment no longer having been tested properly/breaking the system because of some reliance on some weird software implementation?
Re: NHSbuntu – an OS for the NHS [video]
#8its a very good idea – not a good name choice. Healthbuntu maybe at a push.
Medbuntu, maybe
Re: NHSbuntu – an OS for the NHS [video]
#9I do think running hospitals on Linux is a good idea. However just sticking a skin over $YOUR_FAVORITE_DISTRO may not quite work. Hospitals have to work with proprietary devices -- for example, retinal scanners etc, many of which only have Windows drivers.
Also, while updating individual Linux systems is easy, patching Linux at scale across the thousands of desktops in the NHS needs a proper, thought-out patching strategy to eliminate breakage. You also need to consider -- in what cadence do I actually evergreen old systems?
The NHS could easily have this problem with any OS -- the actual culprit being a total lack of security-mindedness among the various NHS trusts' budget-holders. They viewed IT Security as not worth spending upon and are paying the price.
Re: NHSbuntu – an OS for the NHS [video]
#10Does it have something that is at least as powerful as active directory?
If not, it's a no go for an organisation such as the NHS.