Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
The board
Nvidia ION2 GPU with Atom D525 Pineview CPU in an Mini-ITX form factor mainboard (17×17cm)
The memory
2x 2 gb (Dual Channel ) Kingston DDR3 1066MHz ram
The storage
Seagate 2.5″ Momentus XT hybrid 500gb SATA2 HDD
The operating system
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Misc hardware dongles
RT73 Wifi USB stick
USB bluetooth adapter (for use with Wiimote in XBMC)
The objective
Test run the board to run the default Ubuntu system with addon PPA repositories to ensure maximum performance for 1080p media playback using XBMC. Geekbench benchmarks to be used for testing the raw processing power of the D525 coupled with ION2.
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Tags: 10.04, atom, bluetooth, bootchart, Bootspeed, d525, intel, ion, ion2, ITX, mini, mini-itx, nvidia, speed, ubuntu, wifi, wiimote, xbmc
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
The London Stock Exchange will be rolling out a new trading system in stages starting from September 2010.
This new system, Millennium Exchange, uses a combination of Linux with Oracle databases, will replace the existing “TradeElect” Microsoft’s .NET and SQL systems.
According to sources, the existing system suffered countless outages and failures which resulted in many embarassment to the LSE. The new Linux/Oracle system is said to be faster than the current Microsoft solution.
Another win for Linux!
Source : ComputerworldUK: Linux trading system to save London Stock Exchange £10m a year.
SGLNX firmly believes that if Linux is good enough
for a nation’s stock exchange,
It should be competent and secure enough for
any desktop user to use it as their main operating system.
Tags: .net, database, exchange, london, microsoft, opensource, oracle, pounds, save money, speed, sql, stock exchange, trading
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