[med-svn] r5584 - trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg
Michael Hanke
mih at alioth.debian.org
Fri Dec 10 03:10:28 UTC 2010
Author: mih
Date: 2010-12-10 03:10:27 +0000 (Fri, 10 Dec 2010)
New Revision: 5584
Modified:
trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
Log:
Last bits for today.
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 03:02:34 UTC (rev 5583)
+++ trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex 2010-12-10 03:10:27 UTC (rev 5584)
@@ -508,17 +508,17 @@
\subsubsection{Other fields than only biology}
-Looking at all the fork projects mentioned above (except Fedora
+Looking at all efforts mentioned above (except Fedora
Medical and openSUSE Medical) it becomes evident that they are all
-dealing only with biological software. Above it was stated that one
+limited to biological software. Previously it was stated that one
strong column of \DebianMed is this specific field and it is for a
reason: The amount of free biological software is large and most of
-these projects are relatively easy to turn into packages - so the
+these projects are relatively easy to turn into packages -- therefore the
amount of work per package is much smaller compared to for instance
medical record applications with preparation of databases, dedicated
-user management, etc.
+user management.
-So there is one major difference between the projects mentioned above
+There is one major difference between the projects mentioned above
and \DebianMed: While the biological part is really interesting for
medical care \DebianMed tries to cover all other fields of medical
care as well. This goal is not yet reached but continuous work is
@@ -529,11 +529,11 @@
An even more important difference than the more general approach
compared to the other repositories is the fact that \DebianMed is not
only about just packaging software. The \DebianMed project is one of
-the earliest so called {\em Debian Pure Blends} and just wants to do
+the earliest so called {\em Debian Pure Blends} and aims to do
more for the comfort of their users than adding binary packages to the
Debian package pool. The main goal is to turn Debian into the
distribution of choice for people working in the field of medicine and
-to make Debian an operating system that is particularly well fit for
+to make Debian an operating system that is particularly well suited for
the requirements for medical practice and research. The goal of
\DebianMed is a complete system for all tasks in medical care which is
build completely on free software.
@@ -550,16 +550,17 @@
The strength of Debian is the huge number of developers (more than
1000) all over the world working in different fields. Some of them
are working in the field of biology or medicine and thus have a
-natural interest in developing a rock solid system they can relay on
+natural interest in developing a rock solid system they can rely on
for their own work (not only commercial interest to sell service per
-accident). So sometimes the chances to realise specific support for
-small user groups are better inside a community driven distribution
-than in a commercial distribution: You just need some developers who
+accident). Often, chances for providing support for
+small user groups are greater inside a community driven distribution
+than in a commercial distribution: it just needs some developers who
have a specific interest and they will realise and publish an
environment for their needs and will share it with other users. A
company that has to gain a certain market share is not flexible enough
in this regard to cover very specific interests.
+% duplication
The underlying principle that those things will be done if there is
somebody who just does the work is called {\em Do-O-Cracy} -- which
just means the doer decides what gets done.
@@ -569,14 +570,14 @@
maintainers and so they added support for biological packages. The
more the Debian user in the field of biology report back about
problems or wishes the more Debian maintainers are able to enhance
-their system for their own and their users profit.
+their system for their own and their users benefit.
\subsubsection{Metapackages}
Debian offers many tens of thousands of packages. It is considered
helpful for the users (who might not have the right to install
packages himself) to specify all biomedical software with
-one single instruction - to the local shell or to the local system
+one single instruction -- to the local shell or to the local system
administrator.
\DebianMed contains a set of metapackages that
@@ -586,12 +587,12 @@
and installs the metapackage of choice.
The package management system will care for
the installation of all packages that are in the list of dependencies
-of this metapackage - so the user can be sure that all packages he
+of this metapackage -- so the user can be sure that all packages he
might need for the job will be installed on his system. Once one of
the metapackages is installed, a special user menu will be created to
enhance usability for the user working in the field of medicine.
-Currently, inside \DebianMed applications are provided in certain
+Currently, \DebianMed applications are provided in certain
categories: medical practice and patient management, medical research,
hospital information systems, medical imaging, documentation,
molecular biology and medical genetics and others.
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