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.

Since programmer Linus Torvalds created Linux as a free source code in 1991, it has spread around the world as a useful, flexible operating system that serves as an alternative to Microsoft’s Windows ...

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 ...