[med-svn] r5544 - trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg

[Andreas Tille]

Author: tille
Date: 2010-12-08 10:38:15 +0000 (Wed, 08 Dec 2010)
New Revision: 5544

Modified:
   trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
Log:
Drop the usual scheme of biological publications Methods / Results / ... but rather use more informative sections for this purpose where the scheme is not properly applicable


Modified: trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
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--- trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex	2010-12-07 22:52:08 UTC (rev 5543)
+++ trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex	2010-12-08 10:38:15 UTC (rev 5544)
@@ -277,24 +277,8 @@
 \end{itemize*}
 
 
-\section{Results}
+\section{Distribution of free medical software}
 
-\subsection{Other repositories of biology related software}
-
-Looking beyond Debian and related distributions which share more or
-less the same technique we find similar efforts to deliver sets of
-ready to install software
-
-\begin{description*}
-
-\item[FreeBSD Ports: Biology] The Free Software world does not only
-  know Linux as free operating system.  There are others out there
-  like several BSD derivates, OpenSolaris, Hurd and others.  The
-  FreeBSD project has a really nice
-  \printurl{http://www.freebsd.org/ports/biology.html}{collection of
-    biological software}.
-\end{description*}
-
 \subsection{Dedicated bioinformatics and medical distributions}
 
 In 2003 to 2005 the advent of several adapted distributions with a
@@ -342,6 +326,18 @@
 and an QA team running intense tests regarding software quality (see
 above).
 
+Looking beyond Linux distributions there is also FreeBSD.  The ports
+collection also contains a really nice
+\printurl{http://www.freebsd.org/ports/biology.html}{collection of
+  biological software}.  The remarkable fact here is not the
+underlying operating system (you can easily have Debian with a FreeBSD
+kernel with Debian 6.0) but rather the fact that the same strategy to
+support a specific field as in Debian Med was followed:  Use a large
+and technically well supported system and put the specific software
+for special use cases {\em into} this instead of deriving the whole
+system.
+
+
 \subsection{Comparison with \DebianMed}
 
 \subsubsection{Other fields than only biology}