__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Monday 07 May 2007 16:05 \__
> On May 7, 4:58 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [Scientific Linux 5.0 Just Released]
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | SL is a Linux release put together by Fermilab, CERN, and various
>> | other labs and universities around the world. Its primary purpose
>> | is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common
>> | install base for the various experimenters.
>> `----
>>
>> https://www.scientificlinux.org/
>>
>> No official announcement in the Web site yet.
>
> I've been out of the loop on this, but a few years ago I heard of
> plans of the US National Labs for creating their own version of Linux
> (this was after Red Hat went Enterprise and replaced their desktop
> Linux with Fedora). This however is an international collaboration.
>
> Scientists like Linux. It has many advantages for research purposes
> over proprietary software like Windows. When scientists do need to
> use proprietary software, they prefer Macs.
Last year, one scientist ran Linux against Mac OS X for his experiments
(something to do with statistics, IIRC). He showed that Linux performed
better and this started a big mess in the blogsphere.
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