1. Division: High Energy Physics Group, Institute for Theoretical Physics Organization: University of Technology Vienna Country: Austria
2. Educational 3. http://hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at 4. numbers: 5 server, 29 workstations, 3 Notebooks history: except for one heretic (who uses Slackware) we all use Debian ever since said heretic introduced it to the institute in the mid 1990ies (he switched later, God knows why...) software: mostly scientifically relevant stuff like LaTeX, C++, some graphic tools like xfig, standard apache and e-mail/internet stuff and things that help to scan and burn why we run it: very convenient upgrading mechanism, security issues, rarely need the latest drivers for fancy hardware anyway (so no drawback in using Debian), installation via net (local mirror) straightforward - well, and of course additionally all the standard reasons why Linux over Windows, but that is not Debian specific [INSERT NICE QUOTE HERE]