[med-svn] r5580 - trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg
Nelson A. de Oliveira
naoliv at alioth.debian.org
Fri Dec 10 01:55:49 UTC 2010
Author: naoliv
Date: 2010-12-10 01:55:49 +0000 (Fri, 10 Dec 2010)
New Revision: 5580
Modified:
trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
Log:
Fix for small typos
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 2010-12-10 01:39:04 UTC (rev 5579)
+++ trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex 2010-12-10 01:55:49 UTC (rev 5580)
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
Medical health record applications in patient management
are considered essential by most people.
As a starting point GNUmed \cite{gnumed:2008} has been included into Debian.
-Howeverm there are numerous similar Free Software projects that try to
+However, there are numerous similar Free Software projects that try to
solve more or less the same problem, but diverge in implementation details
(programming language, database server, etc.), user interface (GUI or
web application) and basic concepts of work flow and philosophy. It
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
The Debian Project is an association of individuals who share the
intention to create the best possible free operating system. This
operating system is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply
-Debian. Everybody on the internet may initiate a site and
+Debian. Everybody on the Internet may initiate a site and
offer Debian packages. A local administrator
has to decide, if this public source may be trusted.
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@
Here, community-driven Linux distributions have an edge over
commercial Linux distributions. The number of users that may use
a package, i.e. that pay back for the initial packaging effort,
-is not the dicisive factor for or against the maintenance of a
+is not the decisive factor for or against the maintenance of a
package. One only needs a sufficiently large community of active
package maintainers that give the confidence that the current
infrastructure will be maintained, that new packages will
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@
there exist not supported officially ports to other architectures and
operating systems cores. Debian package management and distribution infrastructure
has been adopted to other operating systems lacking an built-in equivalent,
-\emph{i.e.} Fink on MacOSX
+\emph{i.e.} Fink on Mac OS X
(\printurl{fink.sourceforge.net}{fink.sourceforge.net}).
% yoh: context below is not necessary about GNU and even more so
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@
\DebianMed understands itself as a part of Debian. The
whole infrastructure around it will stay solid and does not drain extra
-for the DebianMed subcommunity. Admittedly, quite frequently the packaging
+for the \DebianMed subcommunity. Admittedly, quite frequently the packaging
for \DebianMed does mean to provide packages that are of interest for
e.g. Java programmers at large and this way, the Debian itself profits
from its blends. Also, the separation of \DebianMed from e.g. Debian Science
@@ -710,9 +710,9 @@
Blend -- is far more advanced. There are several reasons for this
fact. The main reasons is an enormous availability of software for education
and the fact that a Norwegian company paid developers to work full
-time on this project. \DebianMed profited from thoese
+time on this project. \DebianMed profited from those
technologies and generalised some tools from Debian Edu for all Blends.
-Conversly, inside \DebianMed some new Blend tools were developed which
+Conversely, inside \DebianMed some new Blend tools were developed which
now enhance the easy preparation of metapackages.
Beyond the meta-packages, another service of the blends is the
@@ -769,7 +769,7 @@
%
-% Can this subsection go? OpenSuSE I do not know, but at least
+% Can this subsection go? openSUSE I do not know, but at least
% Fedora is just plain excellent in exactly that, too, and it
% has some other principles from which Debian can learn, still.
%
@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@
That strong support within the community of users is essential for the
development of software, for quality assurance, feedback on features,
and not at least for the motivation of staff, all commercial
-distributors are well aware of. E.g., RedHat has initiated Fedora as
+distributors are well aware of. E.g., Red Hat has initiated Fedora as
a free supplement to their commercial distribution. It is this reason
why \DebianMed is part of Debian and why groups external to the Debian
society, like BioLinux\marginpar{ref for BioLinux}, are also keen on close collaborations with the
@@ -888,14 +888,14 @@
%health care.
All that said about Debian, at the end of the day it is the Freeness
-of the software that is important. OpenSuSE and Fedora, with
+of the software that is important. openSUSE and Fedora, with
slight variations, have adopted much of the principles that Debian
spearheaded. We still need to advance mechanisms like the packaging
format conversion tool \packagealien}
to work together as Linux users, maybe along
the lines of the collaboration between Debian and Ubuntu. And we all,
users, packagers and developers, need to understand more about cross
-platform developments that also includes MacOS X and Windows.
+platform developments that also includes Mac OS X and Windows.
% FIXME: Should be moved to a "links section" where we also mention
% MedFloss.org
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