This story first appeared in Fermilab Today on March 3. For more than 12 years, Fermilab has supplied thousands of individuals in the scientific community with the operating system that forms the ...

Several weeks ago, I was flying west past Chicago, watching the ground slide by below, when I spotted the signature figure eight of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, better known as Fermilab.

Millions around the world, both scientists and non-scientists, use Scientific Linux, an operating system developed for particle physics. When a handful of developers at Fermilab modified a computer ...

It is amazing how fast open source Linux displaced open systems Unix from the HPC datacenters of the world. This change, which started in the early 2000s, was not just about having a fully open source ...

The United Space Alliance, which manages the computers aboard the International Space Station in association with NASA, has announced that the Windows XP computers aboard the ISS have been switched to ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. It’s nothing to do with Windows 8 and the lack of a ‘Start’ button (or orb) at all. But reports from the Linux ...

In an unexpected announcement earlier this week, Red Hat killed off the free-as-in-beer CentOS variant of its flagship distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The announcement—which clearly stated ...