From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SmtXU-0007PY-Kv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:24:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46FFDE0160; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:24:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A02BCE0687 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:22:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 337C21B4001 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:22:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.527 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.527 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.518, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FSL_RCVD_USER=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zKEaRTNGdi_J for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:22:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CCF21B4015 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:22:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SmtVT-0005GZ-K1 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:22:35 +0200 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:22:35 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:22:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux and the Higgs Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:22:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20120705165223.7a9ab707.frank.peters@comcast.net> X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 06102c0d-cd65-41ef-b840-9f453ac1d6a2 X-Archives-Hash: 98860c595b019640c518ec28996b0352 On 2012-07-05, Frank Peters 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. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I invented skydiving at in 1989! gmail.com