Le Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:18:50AM -0400, Staffa, Nick (NIH/NIEHS) a écrit : > What is Debian ?
Vast question :) Debian is an operating system with a strong emphais on software freedom. Phylogenetically, it stems with Unix and its derivatives. It can be run on many hardware platforms, among which most Intel and AMD-based "PC" machines, as well as on Apple computers. It includes powerful command line and graphical user interfaces, on both of which EMBOSS can be used. The Debian-Med project aims at bringing free software for medecine an biology to Debian users, and distributes pre-compiled packages that allow to run EMBOSS immediately after download. You can find more information on the following pages: http://www.debian.org http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med http://packages.debian.org/sid/emboss (I realise that I wrote the above paragraph in a very "for a broad audience" style. Please do not feel offended if the only answer you needed was just "Debian is a Linux distrubution"! ) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy, Debian-Med packaging team _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
