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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}
+\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
+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
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[``Almost-ready-to-release'']\hfill\emph{Testing} (now \emph{squeeze})\\
% 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})\\
\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{Debian enthusiastic experts}
% could be simply 'Debian People' or 'Debian Community'
Debian is the only major operating system developed
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[Testing/Unstable 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''}\\
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{shots/synaptic-fslview}
-\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}
\url{http://www.debian.org/support}
\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}
\end{multicols}
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+\section*{The Universal Research Platform}
\begin{center}
-\noindent
-\vspace{-3em}
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-
\url{http://neuro.debian.net}
-%\section*{NeuroDebian Project:}
-\section*{The Universal Research Platform}
-\hrule
-
+%\ndsection{NeuroDebian Project:}
+% \hrule
\end{center}
-\section*{NeuroDebian is}
+\ndsection{NeuroDebian is}
a Debian project aiming to provide the Neuroscience community with a
stable and versatile research platform -- the Debian OS.
These advantages make NeuroDebian increasingly popular among
neuroscientists and scientific software developers.
+\vspace{2em}
-\subsection*{NeuroDebian is NOT}
+\ndsubsection{NeuroDebian is NOT}
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
-\subsection*{Benefits from Debian integration}
+\ndsubsection{Benefits from Debian integration}
\begin{itemize}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc]
project, which guarantees its availability, longevity, smooth
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 software coverage}
-\begin{flushright}
-\vspace{-0.5em}
-\url{http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs.html}
-\vspace{-1em}
-\end{flushright}
-\textit{Electrophysiology:} BioSig, Sigviewer, Brian, \ldots\\
-\textit{Machine Learning:} PyMVPA, scikits.learn, \ldots\\
-\textit{Medical Imaging:} AFNI, FSL, Mricron, NiPy, Voxbo, \ldots\\
-\textit{Psychophysics:} PsychoPy, PyEPL, PyOptical\\
+%\columnbreak
+\ndsubsection{How to get NeuroDebian}
-%\columnbreak
+\textit{Debian/Ubuntu:} \url{neuro.debian.net} repository \\
+\textit{Others:} NeuroDebian Virtual Machine
-\subsection*{How to 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{1mm}
+\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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\end{comment}
+\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\\
+
+
+
\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, OpenElectrophy, \ldots \\
+\textit{Matlab/Octave toolboxes:} SPM, EEGLAB, \ldots \\
+\textit{Distributed computing:} Condor \\
+\textit{Imaging:} Connectomeviewer, Freesurfer, MIPAV \\
-\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
All versions of packages readily available
\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}
NeuroDebian is grateful to all Debian developers and contributors for the
development of Debian OS, and to Prof. James V. Haxby (PBS Department,