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Comment Scientific Linux (Score 2) 264

by Ether on Thursday May 26, 2011 @02:49PM (#36254940) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Linux Distro For Computational Cluster?

Scientific Linux. http://www.scientificlinux.org/ Has the benefit of RHEL: a stable OS environment without some of the headaches of CentOS. If you have money (you probably don't) RHEL is good.

Comment Re:For those who don't know about the Game of Life (Score 4, Informative) 241

by Ether on Thursday June 17, 2010 @12:45PM (#32604486) Attached to: First Self-Replicating Creature Spawned In Conway's Game of Life

Turing-complete means that it is able to perform all of the functions of a universal Turing machine, not that it is able to solve the Turing halting problem; a Turing-complete language (or system) by definition is unable to solve the halting problem expressed within that system.

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