This story first appeared in Fermilab Today on March 3. For more than 12 years, Fermilab has supplied thousands of individuals in the scientific community with the operating system that forms the ...

Several weeks ago, I was flying west past Chicago, watching the ground slide by below, when I spotted the signature figure eight of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, better known as Fermilab.

Millions around the world, both scientists and non-scientists, use Scientific Linux, an operating system developed for particle physics. When a handful of developers at Fermilab modified a computer ...