Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.alt.net!not-for-mail From: owl Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Year after year after year, Windows is the default OS at CERN Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:42:26 +0000 (UTC) Organization: O.W.L. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <9t00a8ba.ablhou3@rooftop.invalid> References: <80z08ba.ayo3@rooftop.invalid> <_43JD.1402222$YL3.507850@fx48.iad> NNTP-Posting-Host: boom.rooftop.invalid X-Face: $BHf)vM$6p_?9L`jmOQ54JeNyL+%MZGGRfH8&grb[Y%-jU`MCPAQN=/SVDa{(/67bP(YB}rjV^h>cUh Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:478362 DFS wrote: > On 11/20/2018 10:36 AM, owl wrote: >>> >> >> I didn't realize CERN had so many secretaries. > > > I bet the last button clicked to start a collider experiment is on a > Windows screen. > > Google has a street view inside of CERN control room. You can walk around and see about 80 computer screens. I see two or three obvious windows machines (at login prompt). Where you see other desktops, *maybe* one was windows. Others look like Linux/Unix of some sort, but it's hard to tell. It's pretty clear that most of the ones in the screenshot below of CERN control room (upper image) are running CERN's Linux (compared to two known CERN Scientific Linux screens): https://imgur.com/a/FtmEUvf