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Open Source Software For Experimental Physics?

Posted by kdawson on from the open-like-science dept.

jmizrahi writes "I've recently started working in experimental physics. Quite a few programs are used in the lab for assorted purposes — Labview, Igor, Inventor, Eagle, to name just a few. They are all proprietary. This seems to be standard practice, which surprised me. Does anybody know of any open source software intended for scientific research? Does anybody work in a lab that makes an effort to use open source software?"

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  1. Fermilab... by samriel · · Score: 3, Funny

    has its own Linux distribution. Let's hope to god that it's stable enough to not crash the LHC.

    https://fermilinux.fnal.gov/

  2. Re:He means I think experimental control by Chris+Burke · · Score: 2, Funny

    For those of us (like me) who were confused when the DAQ acronym started being peppered in the parent post, it means "Data AcQuisition".

    Oh man, that makes way more sense than what I was thinking, "Dark Age of Quamelot".

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