El CERN (Kungiyar Nazarin Nukiliya ta Turai) Bature, ko kuma babban cocin kimiyya kamar yadda mutane da yawa ke kiransa, an riga an san shi da amfani da rarraba GNU / Linux don kwamfutocinsa da manyan kwamfutocinsa. Musamman, ya kasance Linux Scientific, wanda ya dogara da RHEL, amma sai suka ƙirƙiri mafi zamani CCentSO (CERN CentOS).
CERN shine ɗayan mafi girma kuma mafi mahimmanci dakunan gwaje-gwaje a cikin duniya. Yawancin masana kimiyya mafi kyau daga ƙasashe daban-daban suna aiki a can kuma suna nazarin asalin duniya, al'amari, da abubuwa masu mahimmanci ga rayuwar ɗan adam. Kuma dukkan godiya ga mai kara kwazo, Babban Hadron Collider (LHC). Yayin gwaje-gwajen, ana samar da dubban gigabytes na bayanai wadanda dole ne a sarrafa su kuma adana su da sauri.
Wannan shine abin da babbar komputar da ke cibiyar data da suke a can take kulawa, tare da GNU / Linux, ta hanya ... Amma ba tare da la’akari da duk irin yabon da zan yi wa wannan babban dakin binciken ba, labarai a yanzu shi ne suna daina amfani da software na Microsoft da kuma fara amfani da software na budewa. Wannan yana basu damar adana kuɗaɗe masu yawa akan lasisi don samun damar saka hannun jari a cikin wasu dalilai masu fa'ida.
Una karuwar farashin lasisi sun sanya hakan ta yiwu. CERN ba zata iya ɓatar da kuɗi mai yawa akan lasisi ba kuma suna yin fare akan software kyauta. Misali, shekara guda da suka gabata sun ƙaddamar MAlt (Ayyukan Zaɓuɓɓukan Microsoft), wanda sunansa ya faɗi duka. Suna neman wasu hanyoyi, suna yin tsarin ƙaura da kuma yin amfani da software kyauta da buɗewa don aikin da ma'aikatansu sukeyi a can. Ba tare da wata shakka ba labari mai kyau. Ina fatan cewa manyan kungiyoyi da kamfanoni da yawa za su bi wannan hanyar.
Da farko karamin gyara: Kimiyyar Linux shine juya Fedora (hakika ya dogara ne akan RHEL kamar haka).
Abinda ya bani mamaki shine CERN ba ta taɓa yin haka ba, misali lokacin da suka tashi daga Fedora zuwa CentOS (notabene kuma ya sauka daga Fedora da RHEL). Wannan ya riga ya kusan zama juyi, saboda da zarar sun sanya shi, me yasa basu yi cikakken canji ba?
Tsegumi: Tim Berners-Lee yayi aiki a CERN (Ban sani ba ko har yanzu yana yi) lokacin da ya ƙirƙiri HTML da Yanar Gizon Duniya. A zahiri, shawarar ta samo asali ne daga buƙatun CERN nata.