and collection of available free software packages that are well-suited for the requirements for medical practices and medical research. Debian Med does not create or program software, but integrates software available under a license conforming to the DFSG into Debian and also extends Debian to be a better platform for this field of interest. The Debian Software Repositories contain over 51,000 packages. Debian Med serves as a magnifying lens to categorize all those packages, that as suited for the field of medicine. Categories Debian includes over 51,000 packages, many of those being the focus of Debian Med. These are being summarized into categories called tasks: Medical practice and Patient management Molecular Biology and Medical Genetics Medical imaging Drug databases Psychology and several others See also Fedora Robotics Robotics suite For medical records: Electronic health record Health informatics Fastra II Ubuntu-Med References External links Detailed paper about Debian Pure Blends Debian Wiki Blends article Blends mailing list Debian-med Debian Med talks Wiki page with further information for users and developers. Debian-based distributions Linux distributions