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
- Preprint-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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