February 22, 2012
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The developer version of Debian GNU/Linux (“wheezy”) contains 17,141 packages of software, or 419,776,604 lines of code. With that figure, James Bromberger estimates that Debian would cost about $19.1 billion to produce. Bromberger also looks at the cost of individual projects like PHP, Apache and MySQL. Even at more than $19 billion, the figure is likely far short of what it would actually cost to produce.
(Full Story: How Much Would Debian Cost to Develop? How About $19 Billion?)
September 29, 2011
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A collection of productivity tips for using SSH.
(Full Story: SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers | Smylers [blogs.perl.org])
September 29, 2011
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The largest exchange, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Euronext, is run on a Linux system that can generate 1,500,000 quotes and process 250,000 orders every second, offering acknowledgments of each transaction within two milliseconds.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now the dominant Linux distribution among exchanges, Lameter said. Red Hat counts among its customers the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, New York Mercantile Exchange, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Eurex derivative exchange and Philippine Stock Exchange.
(Full Story: How Linux mastered Wall Street | ITworld)
September 29, 2011
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Mashable’s top ten devices running Linux:
1. TiVo digital video recorder
2. Android smartphone operating system
3. MiFi mobile access points
4. Large Hadron Collider particle acclerator
5. Electrolux Infinity smart refrigerator.
6. Sony Bravia Television
7. Chumby app-enabled alarm clock
8. TomTom GPS
9. Amazon Kindle
10. Self-driving autonomous car.
(Full Story: Linux: 10 Cool Devices That Embrace You)
August 17, 2011
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A collection of productivity tips for using SSH.
(Full Story: SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers | Smylers [blogs.perl.org])
August 17, 2011
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The largest exchange, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Euronext, is run on a Linux system that can generate 1,500,000 quotes and process 250,000 orders every second, offering acknowledgments of each transaction within two milliseconds.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now the dominant Linux distribution among exchanges, Lameter said. Red Hat counts among its customers the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, New York Mercantile Exchange, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Eurex derivative exchange and Philippine Stock Exchange.
(Full Story: How Linux mastered Wall Street | ITworld)
July 5, 2011
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This standard consists of a set of requirements and guidelines for file and directory placement under UNIX-like operating systems. The guidelines are intended to support interoperability of applications, system administration tools, development tools, and scripts as well as greater uniformity of documentation for these systems.
(Full Story: UNIX Filesystem Hierarchy Standard)
April 20, 2011
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Linus Torvalds visits Google to share his thoughts on git, the source control management system he created two years ago.
(Full Story: Linus Torvalds on git)
April 13, 2011
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The New York Stock Exchange and Deutsche Borse are planning a move to a single cash equities trading platform, understood to be based on Red Hat Linux, in a crucial step towards saving €79 million (£64 million) in annual IT costs and delivering robust, fast messaging.
(Full Story: NYSE and Deutsche Borse merger to single Red Hat Linux trading platform)
