The LHC is using KDE
by Lennart on Sep.10, 2008, under *NIX
I just read that the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that started it first “live” runs today is using KDE for at least some parts of the projects software. This screenshot of a KDE at CERN/LHC looks like a monitoring program (with a knote 
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/gallery.shtml?select=13
I think this is a great prove for stability and flexibility of free software. I mean… The “biggest experiment of all times” seems to use KDE to at least monitor the systems. It is highly presumable that other parts of the LHC systems are using KDE, too.
Do you have other screenshots of the LHC experiment? Comments are welcome!
Check out kde.org and the blog of Aaron Seigo (the KDE hacker I got the information from)
[Edit]
I found some more interesting images:
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-35141-3.html
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-35141-5.html
http://img388.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ohptoftimemeasured13sepjy2.png (from slashdot.org)
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September 12th, 2008 on 8:28 am[...] A fonte apunta cara este sitio. [...]
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September 12th, 2008 on 3:48 pm[...] alledaagse open technieken die heel normaal zijn op uw PC worden in dit project gebruikt: zie KDE for monitoring LHC en SVG for LHC detection event display. In dit laatste artikel kun je zien dat de gemiddelde [...]
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September 11th, 2008 on 10:43 am
The majority of machines at CERN run on Scientific Linux, including the entirety of the GRID. SL is based on Enterprise Linux and developed primarily by CERN and Fermi Lab in the US.
September 11th, 2008 on 11:48 am
Figures the largest experiment in the world would go with KDE’s bloat…
Heh. Bury me hard all ye KDE nuts, for the only way you’re taking away my Fluxbox is from cold, dead fingers.
September 11th, 2008 on 1:50 pm
Scopeport totally ROCKS! Well done dude.
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September 11th, 2008 on 3:51 pm
just wonder…why didn’t they use VISTA….seinfield would applaud it. lol
Long live Open Source guys, no matter what it is…it make us free, and freedom is scarce today
Saludos
September 11th, 2008 on 4:45 pm
Vista is not acceptable because it is not open source project and may contain hostile u.s code. As far as i know no major European Union project uses Windows. So, it doesn’t mean Vista is bad (ok, it is), it means we simply do not trust you.
September 11th, 2008 on 5:07 pm
Well anyway, you wouldnt want a BSOD to pop up just when the particles are about to collide, ye know
September 11th, 2008 on 5:49 pm
No offenses! I’m not a Windows user & I’m not North American! I wouldn’t use vista if MS paid for it!! Kidding though, I’m glad that the Linux community keep the teeth sharp
September 12th, 2008 on 7:50 am
Well. I wouldn’t trust a Windows OS to turn on my automatic sprinklers. Let alone trust the fate of the world to it!
September 12th, 2008 on 2:11 pm
@Arkay – I did exactly that! and it indeed Blue screened. I came home from work to find my yard very wet.. very….
Replaced it with linux and it’s been sitting there working for over 8 years.
September 12th, 2008 on 4:05 pm
> . . . KDE bloat . . .
Hey, one man’s “bloat” is another man’s “features”.
Do you suppose all the code in KDE actually DOES something? (ie, has some purpose)
September 15th, 2008 on 12:05 pm
anybody bothered to notice that the CERN website is running IIS?
September 17th, 2008 on 4:59 pm
based on my personal experience, if they’re using KDE4, we’re all doomed.
October 8th, 2008 on 4:04 pm
I work at CERN and can tell you that most applications for LHC are written in Java, since it in principle is multiplatform. As an operative system, windows is also available (xp of course, still haven’t seen vista on a CERN computer), but in the control room (CCC) I believe that most if not all computers run Scientific Linux CERN (version 4.5). This is though a quite old version of KDE though, I think it is 3.3.1. Link: http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/scientific4/
November 17th, 2008 on 7:25 am
Many Friends of me are using KDE. For me is it the best.
November 25th, 2008 on 9:51 pm
I wouldn’t trust a Windows OS.^^
November 26th, 2008 on 12:03 am
i works ever only with open-source. Why not
January 30th, 2009 on 12:13 pm
blog.scopeport.org – cool sitename man)))
March 18th, 2009 on 7:26 pm
Did anyone find some other screenshots?
March 23rd, 2009 on 6:13 pm
KDE is really the best. A lot of my friends use it.