Nikos Tsipinakis

salsa profile: https://salsa.debian.org/nikos

github profile: https://github.com/tsipinakis

Nikos Tsipinakis is an open source developer, hacker and technology enthusiast. He loves discovering and learning new technologies and finding new ways to combine them into useful services. He currently works for the Infrastructure System Administrator team for Accelerator Control Systems at CERN. In his spare time, he contributes to the Debian Linux Distribution as a package maintainer as well as to other several open source projects.

Accepted Talks:

Approaching the speed of light with Debian: Debians' role in the worlds largest particle accelerator

CERN is the home of the LHC, the largest particle accelerator in the world accelerating protons to 99.9999991% of the speed of light (that’s ~300.000 km/s). To achieve smooth operation of the complex CERN has a wide variety of hardware, from desktop machines to servers to industrial PCs. Debian has been chosen as the next generation operating system for all industrial computers in charge of controlling the electronics of the LHC. This talk will explore the reasoning behind choosing Debian as our next operating system and the experience integrating it with an extensive legacy CentOS infrastructure.