Some quick thoughts: - Automatic updating, high security for a well-regarded distro with little need for IT involvement after deployment. - Unix is the Lingua Franca for informatics (if not biostatistics). Virtually unlimited tool set. Often this Unix system is a Mac, but why not get Unix directly? I'm a statistician also; if you ever want to correspond, drop me a line! At work I have a Windows client but I use that to access a cluster running Red Hat for all my actual statistical work. Jim Garrett
On January 13, 2020 10:49:17 PM EST, lily via libreplanet-discuss <libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org> wrote: Hello All! I have a last minute question on how to prepare for a meeting tomorrow Tuesday 2pm Pacific Standard time. PLEASE RESPOND SOON! I work as a biostatistician for a hospital and when I started working there I requested a computer with a GNU+Linux OS. My request was promptly denied, because IT said they simply do not support Unix. But TOMORROW, there will be a meeting with the following objective: Discuss request for Providing a GNU+Linux operating system for a caregiver that will be using statistical software. The Principle IT engineer wrote this email in anticipation of the meeting: Greetings, I have passed information about this meeting to the manager of the Unix Server Operations team in case he wants to get anyone involved. I am also very concerned about the management and security of such a one off device. Given the network nature of Unix/Linux is there any reason that a Linux client server couldn't be provided instead with an X Windows Server provided on the Windows laptop to connect and utilize software that is installed (and hopefully managed) on the server? While this is overkill for a single user I suspect that there are a lot more users in the various informatics departments that might welcome such a service. I hope this helps stir up some ideas. Principle IT Engineer My background is in mathematics/statistics, but I am a supporter of Free Software because of all the good reasons why Free Software is what it is. I do not have any technical background with regard to servers, server client, network, etc and so I feel I will struggle with explaining why I made this request, why I think this is a good OS for serving our patients, and why it would be good for the long run to support GNU+Linux OS computers. My question for the Libre community is: How do I present my case for tomorrow to explain why it is beneficial for IT at this hospital to have support caregivers that wish to work on a computer with a GNU+Linux OS? Please help! Thank you! Crista -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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