Linux fever on Wallstreet

Christoph Lameter, the contributor of Linux Kernel will discuss how Linux reach widely to the financial exchange, stock exchange and other financial instruments at the annual LinuxCon conference in Vancouver this week.

The largest stock exchange, the NYSE[New York Stock Exchange] Euronext, is run on a Linux system. So it can generate 1,500,000 quotes and take 250,000 orders every second with the acknowledgement of each transaction in 2 ms.


Earlier the NYSE largely run on Unix, like Sun Microsystem's Solaris and HP's AIX. But because of the success of the Linux they move towards Linux based open source operating system. The another advantage is that the release cycle with Solaris or AIX is long term like 2-3 years but in the Linux this period can be reduced to the 1-2 month.

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Networking:Cisco and Micro-blogging:Twitter join the Linux Patent Group

The famous networking company Cisco and the leading micro-blogging website Twitter have become licensees of the OIN [open invention network]. The OIN created in 2005 to provide a patent pool for linux.The other 33 companies join to the organization in the second quarter of the 2011.

The organizations now will have royalty-free access to the portfolio of patents held by the OIN as long as they agree not to assert any of their own patents against what the OIN define as the Linux System. In 2005, OIN was created as a defensive measure to prevent patent aggression against the Linux Ecosystem.It was created by IBM, Red Hat, Sony, NEC, Novell, Phillips. Canonical became the 1st associate member of OIN in 2010.

Gentoo Linux 11.2 released in LiveDVD

The LiveDVD is available of Gentoo Linux 11.2 in two flavors a hybrid x86/x86_64 version and an x86_64 multilib version.It contain main two special features:[1]Writable filesystems using AUFS so you can emerge new packages.

Some other features are:

• System packages: Linux kernel 3.0, Bash 4.2, GLIBC 2.13-r2, GCC 4.5.2, Binutils 2.21.1, Python 3.2 , etc . . .
• Desktop environments: KDE 4.7.0, GNOME 3.0.0, Xfce 4.8, Enlightenment 1.0.8, Openbox 3.5.0, Fluxbox 1.3.1
• LiberOffice 3.3.3, XEmacs 21.5.31, GVim 7.3.244, Abiword 2.8.6, Scribus 1.3.9, GIMP 2.6.11, etc . . .
• Web Browsers: Mozila Firefox 5.0, Chromium 13.0, Opera 11.50.1074, Epiphany 3.0.4, Seamonkey 2.2,etc . . .
• Multimedia tools: Amarok 2.4.3, MPlayer2 2.0, DVDAuther 0.6.14, LAME 3.98.4,etc . . .