Linux in hospitals?

posted 7 months ago

governorkeagan@lemdro.id

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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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acockworkorange@mander.xyz

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7 months ago

I know Linux has little to no penetration in health equipment firmware because a lot if not most of them have hard real-time requirements that Linux just doesn’t quite reach. QNX4 is a real-time Unix flavor that has been used in fancy graphical heartbeat/multi stat monitors. Its microkernel architecture allows for a watchdog to restart individual drivers so it’s more fault tolerant.

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rollingflower@lemmy.kde.social

10 points

7 months ago

Microkernels for the win! Monolithic kernels can be built tiny though, so they are also pretty stable

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