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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/