Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson

An anonymous reader writes "Scientific Linux and Ubuntu had a vital role in the discovery of the new boson at CERN. Linux systems are used every day in their analysis, together with hosts of open software, such as ROOT. Linux plays a major role in the running of their networks of computers (in the grid etc.) and it is used for the intensive work in their calculations."

C++ too

[Jorl17]

Yup, C++ too. They couldn't make it out of thin air -- now everybody wants a bit of success.

Kitchen staff

[Anonymous Coward]

Yup, C++ too. They couldn't make it out of thin air -- now everybody wants a bit of success.

Let's not forget THE most important members of the team: the folks who made the coffee! NOTHING helps more with analysis than fresh pots and pots of coffee!

C++ and Linux - pffft! Gimme enough coffee and all I need is an abacus, some graph paper and colored pencils!

Re:The Only Newsworthy Item

[Nadaka]

OSX is BSD.

plus

[Anonymous Coward]

oxygen played a vital role in the discovery of the new boson at CERN. Oxygen plays a major role in the running of their brains. Finally the world will take oxygen seriously as a means to move humanity forward.

Re:Microsoft did more

[Garridan]

Naw, I think Microsoft's biggest contribution to all this was the Comic Sans font.

Re:Kitchen staff

[GameboyRMH]

Keep going, once you hit 100 cups of coffee you achieve transcendence.

Ubuntu Linux?

[darkpixel2k]

So that's why it took them so long to find the Higgs Boson. They had to 'see' it.
If they'd had a properly working audio stack, they would have been able to hear it years ago...

In related news...

[loufoque]

Computers played a major role in the discovery of the Higgs boson.

I hear electricity played a pretty important role, too.

Re:The Only Newsworthy Item

[DrJimbo]

OSX is BSD.

Great news! Kudos to Apple for stepping up to the plate and releasing OSX under an open source license. Maybe this will encourage Microsoft to release Windows under the GPL-3.

Re:The Little Platform That Could

[Anonymous Coward]

If Linux is so great, then why aren't they selling it for super cheap to poor people, like Microsoft is with Windows? Do they think we're made of money or something?

Re:The Only Newsworthy Item

[f3rret]

If OSX is Uranium on the periodic table, .

So if I install OS X enough times on my computer it'll achieve super-criticality? Does it also mean that OS X is technically illegal under the NPT?

Re:The Only Newsworthy Item

[similar_name]

Of the top 500 supercomputers (often used for science and research) Linux does okay [wikipedia.org].

Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Bo

[Dcnjoe60]

I hope people appreciate the gravity of that statement.

Re:Kitchen staff

[fatphil]

You misspelt either transfusion or transplant, I can't work out which.

Limitations of Scientific Linux ?

[Taco Cowboy]

I was exploring sci-linux' site and they had the "limitation page"

https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/62/limitations [scientificlinux.org]

Well ... it's blank !!