freesoftwaremagazine.com — The Large Hadron Collider is up and running. If it's the end of the world then it will be an apocalypse coutresy of GNU/Linux! CERN is committed to free software and the principles of open source as the basis for their scientific research. Gary Richmond at Freesoftware Magazine reveals the Unix underpinning of the CERN's search for the Higgs Boson.