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\begin{document}
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\begin{multicols}{3} % 3 columns
+\section*{The Universal Operating System}
\begin{center}
\noindent
\includegraphics[width=0.5\columnwidth]{openlogo}
%\includegraphics[width=0.5\columnwidth]{openlogo-vsop}
\url{http://www.debian.org}
-%\section*{Debian GNU/Linux}
+%\ndsection{Debian GNU/Linux}
-\section*{The Universal Operating System}
-\hrule
+% \hrule
\end{center}
\vspace{-1em}
-\section*{Debian project}
+\ndsection{Debian}
+
was founded by Ian Murdock in August 1993 with the goal
-to create an easy to install and maintain non-commercial GNU/Linux
-distribution that would be able to effectively compete in the
-commercial market. Since then Debian established itself as an
+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
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.
% Current installer of Debian has been translated more that to 60 languages.
% (12 ??? officially supported architectures).
% Well appreciated
-Widely acknowledged quality and openness of Debian made it the foundation of choice for
+The high quality and openness of Debian made it the foundation of choice for
more than 120 derivative GNU/Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu and
Mint.
-\subsection*{Debian is}
+\ndsubsection{Debian is}
\begin{description}[nolistsep,leftmargin=0.8em]
\item[V\textnormal{ersatile}]\hfill\url{http://packages.debian.org}\\
Over 15000 software packages maintained by experts to provide
All software is free and open-source (FOSS).\\
Debian is governed by public democratic processes.
\item[P\textnormal{opular}]\hfill\url{http://www.debian.org/users}\\
- Used by governments, companies, educational institutions
+ Used by governments, companies, educational institutions.
\end{description}
\begin{comment}
Very (Special|Stable) Operating Platform
\end{comment}
-%\section*{Understand Debian}
+%\ndsection{Understand Debian}
\columnbreak
-\subsection*{Three Debian suites}
+\ndsubsection{Three Debian suites}
% Debian distribution comes in 3 major flavors
-\begin{description}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc,topsep=1em]
+\begin{description}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc,topsep=0em]
%\item[Unstable] \emph{Constantly changing distribution}\\
\item[Development]\hfill\emph{Unstable} (always \emph{sid})\\
Never \emph{released}, constantly evolving platform to integrate new
- versions of software in Debian.\\
+ versions of software into Debian.\\
%entry point for the software to appear in Debian.\\
Despite its name, \emph{Unstable} is a good platform for those
- requiring the most recent versions of software
+ requiring the most recent versions of software.
%\item[Testing] \emph{Constantly changing future release candidate}\\
-\item[``Always-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
% quality. Immediate updates are provided only
% to assure secure and robust performance. \\
\emph{Testing} provides a good balance between stability and recency
- of software
+ 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}
\begin{comment}
-\subsection*{It has names}
+\ndsubsection{It has names}
The code names of Debian releases are names of characters from the Toy
Story animation, e.g. sid, squeeze, lenny. \emph{Unstable}
a new name -- \emph{wheezy}.
\end{comment}
-\subsection*{Three Debian components}
+\ndsubsection{Three Debian components}
% Debian distribution comes in 3 major flavors
%Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)\\
%\url{http://www.debian.org/social_contract}
-\begin{description}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc,topsep=1em]
+\begin{description}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc,topsep=0em]
\item[Free as in freedom]\hfill\emph{main}\\
% This is the actual Debian with full support.\\
All software in \emph{main} is distributed under FOSS licenses
compliant with Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) to assure
- complete freedom to use, modify, and (re-)distribute
+ complete freedom to use, modify, and (re-)distribute.
\item[Wanna-be free]\hfill\emph{contrib}\\
- FOSS depending on \emph{non-free} 3rd party software
+ FOSS depending on \emph{non-free} 3rd party software.
% Software which, despite being free itself, depends on
% \emph{non-free} 3rd party software, rendering it useless without
\item[Somewhat free]\hfill\emph{non-free}\\
- Software under restrictive licenses available at no charge
+ Software under restrictive licenses available at no charge.
% removing some freedoms
% (\emph{e.g.} non-commercial use only), but which is allowed to be
% used for free and re-distributed (\emph{e.g. NVidia drivers})
\end{description}
-\subsection*{Debian is driven by enthusiastic experts}
+\ndsubsection{Who is Debian}
% could be simply 'Debian People' or 'Debian Community'
Debian is the only major operating system developed
-solely by volunteer individuals that collaborate via the Internet.
+solely by volunteer individuals who collaborate via the Internet.
Debian developers, teams or individual contributors improve the operating
system not by writing new applications (in most cases), but by
\begin{itemize}[nolistsep,topsep=0em,leftmargin=1pc]
\item providing user support
\end{itemize}
-Packaged software in Debian have individual maintainers which are
-often also users of a particular software, and are therefore interested in its
-reliable operation. Certain field of applications have dedicated maintainer
+Packaged software in Debian have individual maintainers who are
+often also users of a particular software, and who are therefore interested in its
+reliable operation. Certain fields of applications have dedicated maintainer
teams, such as Debian-Science or Debian-Med.
%\columnbreak
-\subsection*{How to get Debian}
+\ndsubsection{How to get Debian}
%\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}
-% \subsection*{Get \emph{Testing/Unstable} Debian}
+% \ndsubsection{Get \emph{Testing/Unstable} Debian}
%
% Install on a hard-drive or in a Virtual Machine\\
% \url{http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer}
%
-\subsection*{How to install software}
+\ndsubsection{How to install software}
GUI (Synaptic): \textit{Select and click ``Apply''}\\
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-\subsection*{How to upgrade the entire system}
+\ndsubsection{How to upgrade the entire system}
GUI (Synaptic):
\quad\texttt{apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade}
-\subsection*{How to get support}
+\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}
\end{description}
\begin{comment}
-\section*{Reasons to choose Debian}
+\ndsection{Reasons to choose Debian}
\paragraph{It is maintained by its users}
If something needs to be fixed or improved, we just do it.
system allows Debian to respond to problems quickly and honestly.
-\section*{Acknowledgements}
+\ndsection{Acknowledgements}
\end{comment}
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+\section*{The Universal Research Platform}
\begin{center}
-\noindent
-\vspace{-3em}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{logo_tuned/label}
-
\url{http://neuro.debian.net}
-%\section*{NeuroDebian Project:}
-\section*{The Ultimate Research Platform}
-\hrule
-
+%\ndsection{NeuroDebian Project:}
+% \hrule
\end{center}
-\section*{NeuroDebian}
-
-is a Debian project aiming to provide Neuroscience community with a
-stable and versatile research platform -- the Debian OS. NeuroDebian
-(formerly known as Experimental Psychology, ExpPsy) was initiated in
-2006 to provide packaging of PyEPL and FSL software so they could
-become an integral part of Debian, thus seamlessly available to users
-of Debian or any derived distribution. Since 2006 software coverage
-of NeuroDebian increased more than ten-fold. NeuroDebian repository
-\url{http://neuro.debian.net} makes recent versions of the software
-available not only for the \emph{Development} but also for previous
-releases of Debian and Ubuntu. The tandem of a stable generic
-operating system, Debian, together with new versions of research
-software from NeuroDebian repository compose the ultimate research
-platform -- stable versatile environment with recent neuroscientific
-methodologies just 1-click away. Such stability, ease of software
-installation and system maintenance and constantly growing coverage of
-software solutions made NeuroDebian project popular among
+\ndsection{NeuroDebian is}
+
+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
+all Debian suites (and various releases of Ubuntu).
+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 to everyone, for free.
+These advantages make NeuroDebian increasingly popular among
neuroscientists and scientific software developers.
+\vspace{2em}
-\subsection*{NeuroDebian is NOT}
+\ndsubsection{NeuroDebian is NOT}
-a yet another Debian GNU/Linux derivative distribution. All work done
-within NeuroDebian project targets software inclusion in the official
-Debian distribution.
+yet another Debian GNU/Linux derivative distribution. All work done
+by the NeuroDebian project targets the official Debian operating system. This
+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{-0.5em}
+\url{http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs.html}
+\end{flushright}
+\textit{Electrophysiology:} BioSig, Sigviewer, Brian, PyNN, \ldots\\
+\textit{Machine Learning:} PyMVPA, scikits.learn, \ldots\\
+\textit{Imaging:} AFNI, CV, FSL, Lipsia, Mricron, NiPy, \ldots\\
+\textit{Psychophysics:} PsychoPy, Psychtoolbox, \ldots\\
+\vspace{-0.5em}
-\subsection*{Benefits from Debian integration}
+\ndsubsection{Benefits from Debian integration}
\begin{itemize}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc]
% rephrase to outline the benefit, not burden
-\item Debian standards and policies guaranty quality and robustness
+\item Debian standards and policies guarantee quality and robustness.
-\item Debian centralized bug tracking system provides a unified
+\item Debian's centralized bug tracking system provides a unified
single-point of entry for bug reporting and troubleshooting for any
- software in Debian
+ software in Debian.
-\item Debian makes software available within world-wide distribution
- network, thus offloading bandwidth demands
+\item Debian makes software available through a world-wide distribution
+ 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). Ports teams
- maintain build infrastructure and help making the code
+ architectures and 3 kernels (Linux, HURD, kFreeBSD). Porter teams
+ 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)] I18n teams contribute by localizing
- software for more than 50 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
+\item Neuroscience software becomes a 1st-class citizen within the Debian
project, which guarantees its availability, longevity, smooth
- installation and upgrades
+ installation and upgrades.
-\item Participation in the Debian community helps to assure Debian's
- aptness for the neuroscientific software demands
+%\item Participation in the Debian community helps to assure Debian's
+% aptness for the neuroscientific software demands
\end{itemize}
-\subsection*{NeuroDebian coverage}
-\begin{flushright}
-\vspace{-0.5em}
-\url{http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs.html}
-\vspace{-1em}
-\end{flushright}
-\begin{description}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc,topsep=0em]
-\item[Electrophysiology] BioSig, Sigviewer, Brian, \ldots
-\item[Machine Learning] PyMVPA, scikits.learn, \ldots
-\item[Medical Imaging] AFNI, Caret, FSL, Mricron, NiPy, Voxbo, \ldots
-\item[Psychophysics] PsychoPy, PyEPL
-\end{description}
+%\columnbreak
+\ndsubsection{How to get NeuroDebian}
-%\columnbreak
+\textit{Debian/Ubuntu:} \url{neuro.debian.net} repository \\
+\textit{Others:} NeuroDebian Virtual Machine
-\subsection*{HOWTO get NeuroDebian}
-\begin{description}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc]
-\item[Debian/Ubuntu]\url{neuro.debian.net} repository
-\item[Others] NeuroDebian Virtual Machine
% Here place a left-top corner of OSX with seamless mode
-\end{description}
+\vspace{3mm}
+\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{../shots/mac_vm_mricron}
+
\begin{comment}
-\subsection*{Developers oriented information}
+\ndsubsection{Developers oriented information}
%\columnbreak
-\subsection*{Who is using NeuroDebian}
+\ndsubsection{Who is using NeuroDebian}
\noindent
%\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{usage_worldmap}
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+
\def\blank{\hspace{0em}\vspace{-1em}}
\columnbreak
-\subsection*{Work-in-progress}
-\begin{description}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc,topsep=1em,style=nextline]
+\ndsubsection{Work-in-progress}
+\begin{description}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc,style=nextline]
+\item[Increased coverage]
+\textit{Electrophysiology:} NEURON, Fieldtrip, \ldots \\
+\textit{Matlab/Octave toolboxes:} SPM, EEGLAB, \ldots \\
+\textit{Distributed computing:} Condor \\
+\textit{Imaging:} CMTK, Freesurfer, \ldots \\
-\item[Expanded coverage]\blank
- \begin{description}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc,topsep=0em,style=nextline]
- \item[Electrophysiology] BioSig, Brian, NEURON, \ldots
- \item[Matlab/Octave toolboxes] SPM, EEGLAB, \ldots
- \end{description}
-\vspace{0.5em}
\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]\blank
+\item[Universal availability]
% \begin{itemize}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc,topsep=0em]
% \item Virtual Appliance enhancements
%\item
\end{description}
-\subsection*{Testimonials}
+\ndsubsection{Testimonials}
\begin{flushright}
\vspace{-0.5em}
\url{http://neuro.debian.net/testimonials.html}
-\vspace{-1em}
+\vspace{-0.5em}
\end{flushright}
Processing Facility, Center for Functional Neuroimaging, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA}
-\subsection*{Acknowledgements}
+\ndsubsection{Acknowledgements}
-We are grateful to all Debian developers and contributors for the
-development of Debian OS, and to Prof. James V. Haxby (PBS Department,
+NeuroDebian is grateful to all Debian developers and contributors for
+developing the Debian operating system, 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}).