Notes on ScopePort

I have been searching for a good GNOME LaTeX editor for a long time after i switched from KDE to GNOME. (My KDE favorite was Kile). I tested some andcame to the result that Texmaker is the best LaTeX editor that does not require the KDE libraries (even though it is based on QT)

Writing LaTeX with vim is also okay but I like to just press F6 and get the generated PDF file opened in my favorite PDF viewer.

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 ):

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)