From 9a95aa0deb1c6d2ba442d7020d651f162f5c10aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Hanke Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:31:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Andy's review. --- .../brochure/brochure_debian-neurodebian.tex | 42 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/artwork/brochure/brochure_debian-neurodebian.tex b/artwork/brochure/brochure_debian-neurodebian.tex index f6627f5..9eb4dda 100644 --- a/artwork/brochure/brochure_debian-neurodebian.tex +++ b/artwork/brochure/brochure_debian-neurodebian.tex @@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ system allows Debian to respond to problems quickly and honestly. \ndsection{NeuroDebian is} -a Debian project aiming to provide the Neuroscience community with a +a Debian project that provides 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 @@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ 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 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. @@ -414,6 +414,17 @@ efforts of thousands of Debian contributors. \vspace{3em} \columnbreak +\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\\ +\vspace{-0.5em} + \ndsubsection{Benefits from Debian integration} \begin{itemize}[nolistsep,leftmargin=1pc] @@ -421,31 +432,31 @@ efforts of thousands of Debian contributors. % rephrase to outline the benefit, not burden \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 \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). 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 +\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 @@ -462,7 +473,7 @@ efforts of thousands of Debian contributors. \textit{Others:} NeuroDebian Virtual Machine % Here place a left-top corner of OSX with seamless mode -\vspace{1mm} +\vspace{3mm} \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{../shots/mac_vm_mricron} \begin{comment} @@ -478,17 +489,6 @@ efforts of thousands of Debian contributors. buga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga dugabuga duga \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 -- 2.39.2