On Tuesday 13 April 2004 17:37, Geoff Schrecker wrote:
> Which clinical system do you use? Does it run with Linux or do you use
> Wine to run it?
Irritatingly it continues to require DOS.
No longer supported, and I anticipate a change, regrettably the replacement
will probably run on WIndows.
I'm moving anything that the Internet can be conscious of off the residual
WIndows boxes.
I'm tending to the conclusion that WIndows is best treated as an insecure
library for executing certain specific software, IE that one puts the Windows
server deep inside the network where it cannot see the Internet and vice
versa, and is only connected to other machines by rdesktop.
Paradoxically although much talk has been of Linux being ready for the server
but not for the general desktop, I now think that the safe solution to the
desktop is a version of Linux, while the legacy Windows execution layer goes
on an application server.
General data of course is best kept on the Linux server. Mapping that as one
or more drives to the Windows server using Samba is a risk which might need
to be taken for some purposes.
--
Adrian Midgley (Linux desktop)
GP, Exeter
http://www.defoam.net/
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