Linux Resources at the Jefferson Lab

Locally available resources

• Dialing into JLAB from RedHat 5.2 Linux
• Using the Wireless network at JLAB
• Tired of window manager/desktop bloat, then join the JLAB Cult of XFCE.
• A local mirror of Red Hat's ftp site can be nfs mounted from:

                         mirror:/local/mirror/redhat
  

• You can subscribe to a mailing list for local users of Linux by writing to mailserv@cebaf.gov with the message body

  subscribe linux-users

• Instructions for using the Hall C analyzer on a Linux machine.

Physics uses of Linux

• Linux Software for Scientists.
• The Linux Lab Project is a voluntary project to foster the development of data collection and process control software for linux.
• Jeffrey Templon wrote an article "Evaluation of PC/Linux Systems for use as Scientific Workstations" in Computers in Physics, Vol. 10, No. 1. He also maintains some Information about running Fortran codes under Linux.
• Installing Hermes Software on Linux based Systems.
• Linux and Nuclear Physics.
• High Energy Physics and PC's
• If your linux box is not doing calculations 100% of the time, Steve Wood would like to use the spare CPU time to search for Mersenne Primes.

Various and Sundry Off-site Linux resources

• The Linux Documentation Project page has pointers to many Linux WWW sites.
• To stay informed about linux, we recommend reading the newsgroup comp.os.linux.announce.
• Kernel update notes