Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months ago

Linux in hospitals?

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Linux in hospitals?

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Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months ago

I was in the ED the other day and noticed that they use a mix of Windows 7 and Windows 10. My question is two part.

Do you know of hospitals using Linux?
Besides legacy software and unwanted downtime, is there any reason why they wouldn’t use Linux?

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Equipment firmware has rigid stability constraints. Office software, if IE is good enough, a tested and unchanging version of Wine is good enough.

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