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Old 07-15-2009, 01:35 AM   #1
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Hello, I want to ask you about VistA project(Veterans heath information system and technology architecture ), the requirement needed to install the software is debian distribution. dose fedora distribution fit with it?
 
Old 07-15-2009, 02:16 AM   #2
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It sounds like you're running some higher level app, so yea -- probably. Why not just run Debian, though?
 
Old 08-14-2009, 03:57 PM   #3
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Fedora is not a Debian distro - you would want something like Ubuntu. If the product involves Debian packages (.deb), you could always convert them to RPM (for Fedora) using alien.
 
  


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