LiNHS Concept Day - Initial decisions

LiNHS Mission Statement

The provision of healthcare should be supported by infrastructure which is

• secure
• stable
• efficient
• effective
• easy to use
• flexible, to meet the needs of evolving services

Based on this, we initiated the LiNHS project.

Partition size - 16GB initially
for ruggedised laptops, solid drives and bootable USB memory sticks there will be a cost step, hence the decision to initially start with a 16GB partition with the hope that we can keep this down to 8GB in the final build.

Virtual Machine
To ease development and use of Configuration Management principles, we decided to build the image within a SUN Virtualbox.

Linux Distribution selection
We considered various Linux distributions and opted for Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid Lynx). This was because of its generally accepted good user experience, and 10.4 is the latest Long Term Support version, which means 3 years support on Ubuntu Desktop (April 2015), and 5 years on Ubuntu Server (April 2017). A new LTS version is usually released every 2 years. 32 bit and 64 bit versions of this distro are available.

Software Choices
Building on research prior to the Concept Day:
http://www.kynson.org.uk/penguin/healthcare.htm
We considered the software options for each software requirement.