[gentoo-user] Re: Linux and the Higgs

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2012-07-05, Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net> wrote:
> Linux was used to find the Higgs:
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/w2ly6/new_boson_found_by_linux/
>
> I am not really surprised, but what does disturb me is that the
> distros used in the effort were mainly "Scientific Linux and Ubuntu."
>
> Where was Gentoo?
>
> Somebody had better counsel these scientists to be better able to
> discern the quality of a Linux distro.

I know you're probably being ironic, but...

Scientific Linux is a distro put together by Fermilab, CERN, et alia
for doing the exact type of stuff that they do at CERN.  Maybe an
argument could be made for moving SL from a RHEL base to a Gentoo
base, but trying to get them to abandon SL probably isn't going to be
easy.

The target market for Ubuntu just doesn't seem to be very compatible
with the Gentoo, so that's going to be a tough sell also.

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