https://impilo.diploide.net/ 2026-05-01T17:05:29+00:00 https://impilo.diploide.net/ https://impilo.diploide.net/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png text/html 2021-05-29T19:35:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://impilo.diploide.net/doku.php?id=en:misc:distro_why&rev=1622316954&do=diff Why work so hard to create yet another Linux distro for bioinformatics? And a good question it is :-) There are a number of effort out there to do such a thing: * BioBrew / ROCKS' Bio roll * BioKnoppix * BioPuppy * DNALinux * NEBC Bio-Linux * Vigyaan * VLinux Most of them fail for my needs on one or more of the following points: text/html 2021-05-29T19:35:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://impilo.diploide.net/doku.php?id=en:misc:impilo_name&rev=1622316954&do=diff Impilo: what's in a name? Why Impilo as a name for the project? I looked at many Linux distributions before settling my choice to Ubuntu; after, I needed a name. I played with some and got stuck playing the BioBlaBla or BlaBlaBio game and so on. Then I had a flash: I simply had to comeback to the source text/html 2021-05-29T19:35:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://impilo.diploide.net/doku.php?id=en:misc:thiswiki&rev=1622316954&do=diff Informations about this wiki installation Rational for selecting Dokuwiki Three reasons have motivated the selection of Dokuwiki as Impilo's documentation platform: * First, Dokuwiki does not require the use of a relational database system. This is an important point for documentation portability.