Re:Linux Played a Crucial Role in Discovery of 'Higgs boson'
by obtu on Thursday July 05, 2012 @12:35PM
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It would be harder maintaining a large collection of software outside of one of the major Linux distros. Debian/kFreeBSD might have a chance thanks to the GNU userland, but the archive is less well supported than with the Linux kernel.
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Re:Linux Played a Crucial Role in Discovery of 'Higgs boson'
by ryanjkirk on Friday July 06, 2012 @09:30PM
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Quite the opposite. This isn't about the userland, it's about the kernel. The linux kernel is where the high-performance cluster computing advances have been. The GNU userland is just a clone of the BSD userland, nothing special there. Moreover, FreeBSD and OpenBSD's packages are diverse, well-maintained, and current. But neither OS's userland nor any of their packaging systems have anything to do with high-performance cluster computing.