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Iceweasel would seem to be a better fit for their temperature range... Anyway, I wonder what else these scientists are running on their computers. How much of
by kijin 15y ago
Iceweasel would seem to be a better fit for their temperature range...
Anyway, I wonder what else these scientists are running on their computers. How much of their specialized stuff is based on free software? Do Antarcticans feel a special affinity to Linux, since they've got penguins all over the place?
- southpolesteve 15y agoI worked on an antarctic research project for several years, including one trip to the south pole. Our specific project used Red Hat Linux with a number of open source libraries for communicating with hardware. Interfaces were programmed in Python.
- schiffern 15y agoSo it's basically like most other scientific computing projects.