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was founded by Ian Murdock in August 1993 with the goal
to create an easy-to-install and maintain non-commercial GNU/Linux
operating system that would be able to compete in the
-commercial market. Since then Debian established itself as an
+commercial market. Since then, Debian established itself as an
independent and unique project driven by more than 3000
enthusiastic contributors all around the globe.
-Principles of \emph{do-ocracy} and democracy backed up by evolving transparent
+Principles of \mbox{\emph{do-ocracy}} and democracy backed up by evolving transparent
standards allowed Debian to deliver the most comprehensive operating system -- not
only by amount of integrated software, but also by
number of the supported hardware architectures.
requiring the most recent versions of software.
%\item[Testing] \emph{Constantly changing future release candidate}\\
-\item[``Almost-ready-to-release'']\hfill\emph{Testing} (now \emph{squeeze})\\
+\item[``Always-ready-to-release'']\hfill\emph{Testing} (now \emph{wheezy})\\
% What to become a next \emph{Stable} release candidate.\\
Software versions known to be secure and of good quality.
% Software migrated from \emph{Unstable} which is known to be of good
of software.
%\item[Stable] \emph{Official release}\\
-\item[Official release]\hfill\emph{Stable} (now \emph{lenny})\\
+\item[Official release]\hfill\emph{Stable} (now \emph{squeeze})\\
% Software verified to be well tested and secure,
% Very stable (hence the name) and secure
% but might be lacking the most recent versions.\\% of the software.\\
\emph{Testing} is assured to be robust. %, on average bi-yearly.
Complementary updates keep the
system secure. \\
- \emph{Stable} is the choice where stability and security are of
+ \emph{Stable} is the best choice where stability and security are of
primary importance.
\end{description}
\end{description}
-\ndsubsection{Debian enthusiastic experts}
+\ndsubsection{Who is Debian}
% could be simply 'Debian People' or 'Debian Community'
Debian is the only major operating system developed
%\subsubsection*{Stable}
\begin{description}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc,style=nextline]
-\item[Install on a hard-drive] \url{http://get.debian.net/}
-\item[Boot from CD/USB] \url{http://get.debian.net/live/}
+\item[Install on a hard-drive] \url{http://www.debian.org/distrib/}
+\item[Live CD/DVD] \url{http://www.debian.org/CD/live/}
\item[Run in a Virtual Machine] \url{http://neuro.debian.net/vm.html}
-\item[More options (e.g. buy pre-installed machine)] \url{http://debian.org/distrib}
-\item[Testing/Unstable version] \url{http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer}
+\item[Development version] \url{http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer}
\end{description}
% \ndsubsection{Get \emph{Testing/Unstable} Debian}
\ndsubsection{How to get support}
+\begin{description}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc,style=nextline]
+\item[Overview]
\url{http://www.debian.org/support}
-\begin{description}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc,style=nextline]
%\item[GUI]
% Use \emph{Synaptic Package Manager}
\item[Software bug]
%\item[Mailing lists]
\url{http://www.debian.org/MailingLists}\\
\url{http://forums.debian.net}\\
- \url{http://ask.debian.net}
+ \url{http://ask.debian.net}\\
+ \url{irc://irc.debian.org/debian}
%\end{description}
\item[Commercial support]
\url{http://www.debian.org/consultants}
\section*{The Universal Research Platform}
\begin{center}
-\noindent
-
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{logo_tuned/label}
-
\url{http://neuro.debian.net}
%\ndsection{NeuroDebian Project:}
% \hrule
\ndsection{NeuroDebian is}
-a Debian project aiming to provide the Neuroscience community with a
-stable and versatile research platform -- the Debian OS.
-Since 2005, NeuroDebian integrates neuroscience software into the Debian
-operating system to allow neuroscientists to benefit from the advantages of
+a Debian project that provides the Neuroscience community with a
+stable and versatile research platform -- the Debian operating system.
+Since 2005, \mbox{NeuroDebian} integrates neuroscience software into Debian
+to allow neuroscientists to benefit from the advantages of
the universal operating system in their day-to-day research activities.
The NeuroDebian repository
(\url{http://neuro.debian.net}) offers the latest research software for
The combination of a stable generic
operating system, Debian, and a variety of conveniently accessible research
software creates a versatile research platform for neuroscience that offers the
-latest methodologies of the field for everyone, for free.
+latest methodologies of the field to everyone, for free.
These advantages make NeuroDebian increasingly popular among
neuroscientists and scientific software developers.
+\vspace{2em}
\ndsubsection{NeuroDebian is NOT}
approach helps to increase the longevity of the project by relying on the
efforts of thousands of Debian contributors.
+\vspace{3em}
\columnbreak
+\ndsubsection{Software at your fingertips}
+\begin{flushright}
+\vspace{-1em}
+\url{http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs.html}
+\end{flushright}
+\textit{Distributed computing:} Condor \\
+\textit{Electrophysiology:} BioSig, EEGLAB, Sigviewer, \ldots\\
+\textit{Machine Learning:} MDP, PyMVPA, sklearn, \ldots\\
+\textit{Neural Modeling:} Brian, PyNN, \ldots\\
+\textit{Imaging:} AFNI, FSL, Mricron, NiPy, SPM, \ldots\\
+\textit{Psychophysics:} PsychoPy, Psychtoolbox, \ldots\\
+\vspace{-0.8em}
+
+% TODO: Environments... -- list avail cloud env using NeuroDebian
+
\ndsubsection{Benefits from Debian integration}
\begin{itemize}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc]
% rephrase to outline the benefit, not burden
-\item Debian standards and policies guarantee quality and robustness
+\item Debian standards and policies guarantee quality and robustness.
-\item Debian centralized bug tracking system provides a unified
- single-point of entry for bug reporting and troubleshooting for any
- software in Debian
+\item Debian's centralized bug tracking system provides a unified
+ single-point of entry for bug reporting and troubleshooting
+ for any software in Debian.
\item Debian makes software available through a world-wide distribution
- network, thus offloading bandwidth demands
+ network, thus offloading bandwidth demands.
-\item Other Debian enthusiasts take care about large-scale aspects of
+\item Other Debian contributors handle large-scale aspects of
deployment, quality assurance, porting and integration at the level
of the entire distribution:
\begin{description}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc]
\item[Porting] Software sources get built for 11 hardware
architectures and 3 kernels (Linux, HURD, kFreeBSD). Porter teams
- maintain build infrastructure and help making the code
+ maintain build infrastructure and help make the code
platform-agnostic.
\item[QA] Whole-archive rebuilds assure robustness of packaging and
warn about upcoming problems (core libraries upgrades) beforehand.
-\item[Internationalization (I18n)] Translator teams help localizing
- software for more than 60 languages
+\item[Internationalization (I18n)] Translator teams help localize
+ software for more than 60 languages.
\end{description}
-\item Neuroscience software becomes 1st-class citizen within Debian
- project, which guarantees its availability, longevity, smooth
- installation and upgrades
+\item Neuroscience software becomes a 1st-class citizen within the
+ Debian project, which guarantees its longevity, smooth installation
+ and upgrades.
%\item Participation in the Debian community helps to assure Debian's
% aptness for the neuroscientific software demands
\textit{Others:} NeuroDebian Virtual Machine
% Here place a left-top corner of OSX with seamless mode
-\vspace{1mm}
+\vspace{3mm}
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-\ndsubsection{NeuroDebian software coverage}
-\begin{flushright}
-\vspace{-0.5em}
-\url{http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs.html}
-\end{flushright}
-\textit{Electrophysiology:} BioSig, Sigviewer, Brian, \ldots\\
-\textit{Machine Learning:} PyMVPA, scikits.learn, \ldots\\
-\textit{Imaging:} AFNI, FSL, Mricron, NiPy, Voxbo, \ldots\\
-\textit{Psychophysics:} PsychoPy, PyEPL, PyOptical, \ldots\\
-
-
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\ndsubsection{Work-in-progress}
\begin{description}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc,style=nextline]
\item[Increased coverage]
-\textit{Electrophysiology:} NEURON, OpenElectrophy, \ldots \\
-\textit{Matlab/Octave toolboxes:} SPM, EEGLAB, \ldots \\
-\textit{Distributed computing:} Condor \\
-\textit{Imaging:} Connectomeviewer, Freesurfer, MIPAV \\
-
-\epigraph{Having FreeSurfer integrated into the Debian operating system by the NeuroDebian team would have enormous benefits for us, and for the thousands of users of FreeSurfer across the world.}{Prof. Bruce Fischl}{Director, Computational Core at Martinos Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA}
+\textit{Electrophysiology:} Fieldtrip, \ldots \\
+\textit{Neural Modeling:} NEURON, (NEST) \\
+\textit{Imaging:} DTI-TK, Freesurfer, XNAT, \ldots
+% \epigraph{Having FreeSurfer integrated into the Debian operating system by the NeuroDebian team would have enormous benefits for us, and for the thousands of users of FreeSurfer across the world.}{Prof. Bruce Fischl}{Director, Computational Core at Martinos Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA}
\item[Improved quality assurance]
Extended integration and regression testing
\item[Available snapshotting service]
% Entire NeuroDebian repository for any given past moment
All versions of packages readily available
-\item[Data as the 1st class citizen]
+\item[Data as the 1st-class citizen]
\url{http://neuro.debian.net/datasets.html}
-\item[Universal availability]
- % \begin{itemize}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc,topsep=0em]
- % \item Virtual Appliance enhancements
- %\item
- Cloud computing
- %\end{itemize}
-
+% yoh: see TODO above -- we can say that it is available already
+%\item[Universal availability]
+% % \begin{itemize}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc,topsep=0em]
+% % \item Virtual Appliance enhancements
+% %\item
+% Cloud computing
+% %\end{itemize}
\end{description}
\vspace{-0.5em}
\end{flushright}
-
+% TODO yoh: This one remains the best summary IMHO. But may be
+% we would just kick this section out an place Testimonials into References
\epigraph{The approach taken with NeuroDebian is plainly the most appropriate
approach to software distribution for the dominant platform in brain
image analysis, and I have great confidence that this project will be
\ndsubsection{Acknowledgements}
-NeuroDebian is grateful to all Debian developers and contributors for the
-development of Debian OS, and to Prof. James V. Haxby (PBS Department,
-Dartmouth College) for his continued support and endless supply of
-Italian espresso (\url{http://neuro.debian.net/coffeeart.html}).
+NeuroDebian is grateful to all Debian developers and contributors for
+developing the Debian operating system, to
+\href{http://www.incf.org}{INCF} for the support in community outreach
+and technical collaborations, and to
+Prof. \href{http://haxbylab.dartmouth.edu}{James V. Haxby}
+(\href{http://www.dartmouth.edu/~psych}{PBS Department, Dartmouth
+ College}) for his continued support and endless supply of Italian
+espresso (\url{http://neuro.debian.net/coffeeart.html}).
+
+
+\ndsubsection{References}
+
+Halchenko, Y. O. \& Hanke, M. (2012). \href{http://www.frontiersin.org/Neuroinformatics/10.3389/fninf.2012.00022/full}{Open is not enough. Let’s take the next step: An integrated, community-driven computing platform for neuroscience}. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 6:22.
+
+% TODO: adjust for the new layout
+\url{http://neuro.debian.net/#publications}
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