Neuroscience runs on GNU/Linux

by Michael Hanke and Yaroslav O. Halchenko

Abstract/Summary

In an online survey neuroscientists were asked to describe the computing environments. Three environments were distinguished: personal – a system with an operating system of their own choice, where they have permission to install arbitrary research software; managed – an environment that is provided and maintained by someone else (e.g., dedicated IT staff), without general permission to install arbitrary software; virtual – an environment that runs in a virtual machine (VM), possibly with multiple instances of operating systems running simultaneously on the same hardware. The survey data show that the majority of neuroscientist use GNU/Linux operating systems to conduct their research. Among these distributions Debian-based systems are preferred in the personal environment. In the managed environment approximately equal proportions of Debian- and Red Hat based systems comprise the vast majority of all reported GNU/Linux systems.

References

Full text and PDF (open access)

http://www.frontiersin.org/Neuroinformatics/10.3389/fninf.2011.00008/full

Supplementary analyses and data

http://neuro.debian.net/survey/2011/

Preprint-PDF

HankeHalchenko_FrontiersInNeuroinformatics2011.pdf

Citation

Hanke, M. and Halchenko, Y.O. (2011). Neuroscience runs on GNU/Linux. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 5:8.

BIBTeX

@Article{  
 author={Michael Hanke  and  Yaroslav O Halchenko},     
 title={Neuroscience runs on GNU/Linux},      
 journal={Frontiers in Neuroinformatics},      
 volume={5},      
 year={2011},      
 url={http://www.frontiersin.org/Neuroinformatics/10.3389/fninf.2011.00008/full},       
 doi={10.3389/fninf.2011.00008},      
}      

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