Approaching the speed of light with Debian: Debians' role in the worlds largest particle accelerator
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The talk explains why CERN selected Debian to replace CentOS on the industrial PCs that control LHC electronics, and describes the technical and operational experience of integrating Debian into CERN’s large, legacy CentOS infrastructure. It covers deployment and compatibility issues across diverse hardware (desktops, servers, industrial PCs) used to manage the accelerator.
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