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Fossnews 4
FossNews Weekly
Issue : 4
Team : T.Shrinivasan ( tshrinivasan@gmail.com ) , K.Balavignesh ( kbalavignesh@gmail.com )
Date : 18052008
Contents
1. New York Stock Exchange runs on Linux
2. Fedora 9 Sulphur Released
3. Mumbai City Buses run with Linux
4. Kanimozhi – Second month issue released
5. Nexuiz 2.4.2– 3D Shooting Game is released
6. Wikipedia, now a teaching tool
7. Blog of this week : http://www.cyberciti.biz
1. New York Stock Exchange runs on Linux
Red Hat announced that announced that a European branch of the the New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE) has implemented its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat Network. NYSE
Euronext is using RHEL for key components of its "missioncritical," highspeed financial trading
environments, Red Hat said.
NYSE Eurotext chose Linux due to its greater flexibility, freedom from vendor lockin, cost
savings, and the ability to handle heavy workloads.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7320882318.html
2. Fedora 9 Sulphur Released
Fedora Linux version 9, code named “Sulpher” is released. It has the latest packages and Desktop
enhancements. It comes with a single DVD and tons of packages in the repositories. GNOME2.22,
KDE 4.03, PcakageKit, EXT4 Support and updated other packages.
http://fedoraproject.org/
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3. Mumbai City Buses run with Linux
Mumbai City buses uses Smart Card sell tickets. Passengers have to buy smart cards at the Bus
Transport Offices at various costs. After entering into buses, they have to show their smart cards to
the Billing computer. The buses are digitally transformed with Computers, Smart card readers,
Wireless LAN, GPS, Preprogrammed Routing System.
The entire system uses CentOS Linux and they handle 3 million rupees daily. The system is stable
and secure. Mumbai saved 1.2 Million Rupees by choosing Linux.
http://www.linux.com/feature/132871
4. Kanimozhi – Second month issue released
Kanimozhi, the online Tamil magazine for Free Open Software is released. In this issue, the
following are the caching articles. PDF version is also available for download.
Unicode and tamil.
Wubi the Windows installer for Ubuntu Linux.
Gettext an introduction.
Redhat Pacjage managerRPMAn introduction.
Kanimozhi needs more contribution. Please send your articles and creations to Kanimozhi.
Get at http://kanimozhi.org.in
5. Nexuiz 2.4.2– 3D Shooting Game is released
Nexuiz reached its version 2.4.2 and released recently. It is a award winning open source First
Person Shooting game. It is available for Linux, Mac OS and Windows.
http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/
6. Wikipedia, now a teaching tool
Wikipedia, is an online encyclopedia. The difference here is any one can edit the articles there.
Around the world, people are always adding content to the wikipedia. It has over 10 million articles
in 253 languages.
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Now American universities ask students to write articles directly to wikipedia instead of submitting
assignments and paper works. This makes the students to involve in the great effort of making
wikipedia as collaborative workplace and growing encyclopedia.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080511/tc_afp/canadascienceinternet
http://en.wikipedia.org
7. Blog of the Week : http://www.cyberciti.biz
nixCraft is a leading Linux blog by Vivek covering open source software and related technologies.
It offers Linux tips, hacks, news, tutorials and ideas. You can subscribe to RSS or Email. All his
articles are useful and very informative.
http://www.cyberciti.biz
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