Survey paper blog.

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+:date: 2011-06-27 23:00:00
+:tags: debian, neuroscience, survey
+
+Neuroscience runs on GNU/Linux
+==============================
+
+While everybody else is waiting for Linux to become the standard on the
+desktop, in the field of neuroscience research we have made this step already
+-- so silently that we haven't even realized it ourselves.
+
+In the NeuroDebian project we were trying to figure out what software would
+need to be integrated into Debian to have a maximum impact on enhancing its
+utility as a research platform. So we ran a survey, asking people to tell us
+what software they use in their research and what platform they run it on. We
+also asked people to describe their personal preferences regarding a computing
+environment and how that might differ from the computing platforms they are
+institutionally provided with.
+
+The main result of this survey was very simple and pretty surprising (even to
+us): Despite common believe, GNU/Linux is the current standard computing
+platform in neuroscience -- and that is both on the big compute clusters
+**and** on the laptop and desktop.  It turns out that researchers on GNU/Linux
+are not only the majority, they are also much happier with what they get, and
+spend less time on non-research maintenance tasks than the guys who are still
+stuck with Windows.
+
+It was also nice to see that Debian-based systems are preferred by
+neuroscientists among GNU/Linux distributions for their personal computing
+environments and that even proportions of Red Hat and Debian-based systems
+together represent the vast majority of GNU/Linux deployments in institutional
+computing infrastructure.
+
+Well done Debian!
+
+The results have just been accepted for publication in the journal `Frontiers
+in Neuroinformatics <http://www.frontiersin.org/Neuroinformatics>`_.  A link to
+the manuscript, the original survey form, collected data, as well as
+supplementary analysis results are available at:
+http://neuro.debian.net/survey/2011/