{"id":17876,"date":"2020-03-31T18:39:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T18:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/debian-linux-readies-an-anti-coronavirus-hack-a-thon.html"},"modified":"2020-03-31T18:39:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T18:39:57","slug":"debian-linux-readies-an-anti-coronavirus-hack-a-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/debian-linux-readies-an-anti-coronavirus-hack-a-thon.html","title":{"rendered":"Debian Linux readies an anti-coronavirus hack-a-thon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Open-source programmers and engineers have been working on a wide variety of projects to beat coronavirus<\/a>. These range from hospital management programs to speeding up drug development to building inexpensive ventilators<\/a>. Now, Debian Linux<\/a>, one of the oldest and largest Linux distribution communities, is throwing its programming resources behind a hack-a-thon trying to beat\u00a0COVID-19<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Debian Med team is inviting programmers to a virtual COVID-19 Biohackathon<\/a> from April 5-11, 2020. The Debian Med team<\/a> wants your help in improving free and open-source biomedical software programs, tools and libraries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Debian Med is a Debian Pure Blend<\/a>. In other words, it’s a Debian-based distro designed expressly for a specific use case. Debian Med is designed for medical practice and biomedical research. To do this, Debian Med integrates medical imaging, bioinformatics, clinic IT infrastructure, and related programs into a medical-specific Debian OS.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You need not be a medical developer, or even be that good at putting on a bandaid, to help. Debian maintainer Michael R. Crusoe wrote, “Most tasks do not require any knowledge of biology or medicine, and all types of contributions are welcome: bug triage, testing, documentation, CI, translations, packaging, and code contributions.”<\/p>\n

Volunteer programmers are being encouraged to focus on amd64 architecture programs. That’s because most biomedical software is built on this 64-bit platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The bugs being addressed by the hack-a-thon are listed under the\u00a0Summary bugs page of task Covid-19<\/a>.The packages needing your help can be found at Debian Med Covid-19 packages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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You can find the plans on how the hack-a-thon is being organized at this Debian COVID-19 development site<\/a> and the Debian COVID-19 GitHub page<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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