Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org wrote: Am 08/17/11 13:44, schrieb Joost Roeleveld: On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 09:59:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote: How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:10:18 -0700 (PDT), Alan McKinnon wrote: I was interested to read that NASDAQ runs a modified Gentoo and wondered what does an unmodified stock Gentoo look like. Shiny, round, about 5.25 in diameter :) -- Neil Bothwick To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:45:14 +0200, Norman Rieß wrote: Concerning the Atom not fast enough for compiling-Problem. I compiled, run and update a Gentoo System on a AMD Geode LX, which is way less powerfull and it works just fine. That's just plain masochism. I have one of those and even

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread Dale
Matthew Finkel wrote: Just out of curiosity, how long does it take to compile gcc? - Matt This may help. I saw one Atom CPU in the list. http://gentoo.linuxhowtos.org/compiletimeestimator/ It must be pretty slow since it is at about the bottom of the list. The list goes from fastest to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08/18/11 09:11, schrieb Matthew Finkel: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org mailto:nor...@smash-net.org wrote: Am 08/17/11 13:44, schrieb Joost Roeleveld: On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 09:59:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 August

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08/18/11 09:50, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:45:14 +0200, Norman Rieß wrote: Concerning the Atom not fast enough for compiling-Problem. I compiled, run and update a Gentoo System on a AMD Geode LX, which is way less powerfull and it works just fine. That's just plain

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org wrote: Am 08/18/11 09:11, schrieb Matthew Finkel: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org mailto:nor...@smash-net.org wrote: Am 08/17/11 13:44, schrieb Joost Roeleveld: On Wednesday,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Matthew Finkel wrote: Just out of curiosity, how long does it take to compile gcc? - Matt This may help. I saw one Atom CPU in the list.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:41:57 +0200, Norman Rieß wrote: Concerning the Atom not fast enough for compiling-Problem. I compiled, run and update a Gentoo System on a AMD Geode LX, which is way less powerfull and it works just fine. That's just plain masochism. I have one of those and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote: I have a midget server on the LAN (Atom N270) which runs Gentoo, but it's too underpowered to do all the compiling itself, so it NFS-exports its packages directory to my workstation, where I have a 32-bit

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08/18/11 11:08, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:41:57 +0200, Norman Rieß wrote: Concerning the Atom not fast enough for compiling-Problem. I compiled, run and update a Gentoo System on a AMD Geode LX, which is way less powerfull and it works just fine. That's just plain

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread James Broadhead
On 18 August 2011 09:23, Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org wrote: Am 08/18/11 09:11, schrieb Matthew Finkel: Just out of curiosity, how long does it take to compile gcc? - Matt Atom: genlop -t sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5  * sys-devel/gcc     Sat Feb 26 13:06:08 2011 sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5      

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08/18/11 12:08, schrieb James Broadhead: On 18 August 2011 09:23, Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org wrote: Am 08/18/11 09:11, schrieb Matthew Finkel: Just out of curiosity, how long does it take to compile gcc? - Matt Atom: genlop -t sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5 * sys-devel/gcc Sat Feb

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread James Broadhead
On 18 August 2011 12:45, Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org wrote: CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -march=core2 -mssse3 -mfpmath=sse Yes, those work out to the same set as I posted -- the major difference is that I have USE=gtk gcj, which along with the additional load probably accounts for the discrepancy. I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote: How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting setup or use case? Since you ask: my workstation runs Gentoo. My old workstation sometimes does; at

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, everybody. On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 09:48:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 09:59:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote: How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting setup or use case? Since you

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-17 Thread James Broadhead
On 16 August 2011 01:28, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Linux also offered financial firms the ability to modify the source code to further speed performance, Lameter said. It depends on how daring the exchange is, Lameter said, noting that NASDAQ uses a modified version of the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.08.2011 01:24, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Systemd I don't know about the wiki (I didn't use it to install systemd), and as I said, I think it works out-of-the-box now, and you can safely go back to OpenRC if you want to. Installed it in a VM now, and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-17 Thread Sebastian Beßler
I use it on my webserver, my Desktop and quite new on the Desktop of my mother. I had there Xubuntu before but that was a pain in the rear-end to administrate with all that fiddly automatisms. Now Gentoo does exactly as told and everyone is happy. The next goal is to convert the laptop of my

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-17 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08/17/11 13:44, schrieb Joost Roeleveld: On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 09:59:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote: How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
How does everybody here use Gentoo? 2 personal desktop machines (one stand-by) + 1 netbook. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 09:48:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting setup or use case? 1) 2 desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday, August 15, 2011 09:48:30 PM Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Jens Reinemuth
I use it on all of my hardware (except the smartphone)... That includes my server (Xeon, 64bit, nginx, mariadb, mongodb, postfix, ...), my pc at home (Core2, 64Bit, kde 4.7), the netbook (32bit, atom, kde 4.7), my file-server (atom, 64bit, samba)... gentoo is the system of choice on every new

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread victor romanchuk
1 Desktop 1 Netbook (For holiday and during travel) 1 home server (running Xen with virtualized Gentoo instances) i own similar combination (the server is actually head/mouseless desktop powered by core i7 and equipped with 24gb of ram allowing to concurrently run number of gentoo and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon 15 August 2011 21:48:30 Michael Mol did opine thusly: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wal l-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 02:10:18 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon 15 August 2011 21:48:30 Michael Mol did opine thusly: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wal l-street This is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue 16 August 2011 11:15:21 Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 02:10:18 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon 15 August 2011 21:48:30 Michael Mol did opine thusly: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:30:03 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue 16 August 2011 11:15:21 Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 02:10:18 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon 15 August 2011 21:48:30 Michael Mol did opine thusly: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Montag, 15. August 2011, 21:48:30 schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread jdm
7 but only for games. How sad --Original Message-- From: Adam Carter To: Gentoo ReplyTo: Gentoo Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered Sent: 16 Aug 2011 04:37 This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? 1

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 16:15, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 02:10:18 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: I was interested to read that NASDAQ runs a modified Gentoo and wondered what does an unmodified stock Gentoo look like. Then I realised I was being silly,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Todd Goodman
* Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [110815 21:21]: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/-10/37 11:59, Michael Mol wrote: This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting setup or use case? I use gentoo on my laptop (1.6

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting setup or use case?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 22:48, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For server,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 16.08.2011 03:48, schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 16.08.2011 19:06, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: In all my computers (i.e., not the two desktops at uni, since they are not mine) I use systemd (which thankfully has entered the portage tree) systemd sounds like a nice-to-have project for me. Which howto did you follow, what do you

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 16.08.2011 19:06, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: In all my computers (i.e., not the two desktops at uni, since they are not mine) I use systemd (which thankfully has entered the portage tree) systemd sounds like a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 16.08.2011 23:06, schrieb Paul Hartman: I became afraid after reading this wiki page, especially the part about removing openrc and making your own init.d and conf.d entries: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Systemd :) I read through parts of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 16.08.2011 19:06, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: In all my computers (i.e., not the two desktops at uni, since they are not mine) I use systemd (which thankfully has entered the portage tree) systemd sounds like a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 16.08.2011 19:06, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: In all my computers (i.e., not the two desktops at uni, since they are not mine) I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 16.08.2011 23:06, schrieb Paul Hartman: I became afraid after reading this wiki page, especially the part about removing openrc and making your own init.d and conf.d entries: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08/16/11 03:48, schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For

[gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread Adam Carter
Linux also offered financial firms the ability to modify the source code to further speed performance, Lameter said. It depends on how daring the exchange is, Lameter said, noting that NASDAQ uses a modified version of the Gentoo Linux distribution.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For server,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carteradamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
That is indeed cool. And a welcome news for me who's trying to champion Gentoo in my company which, as it happens, is a stockbrokerage house. One of my country's largest, even :) Rgds, On 2011-08-16, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Linux also offered financial firms the ability to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
To answer your survey: All my gentoo VMs are in production as servers. Non-glorious but essential ones such as mail servers, DNS servers, proxy servers, and also a couple of firewalls. I'm currently in the process of phasing out Ubuntu servers from my company, leaving just one for running

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread James Wall
I use it for my laptop, desktop/HTPC. firewall/router, distfiles server and NFS boot server. The distfiles and NFS boot servers are actually VMs due to having to downsize PC space on my desk. (my wife had a fit about 6 PCs on my desk running constantly.) James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread Adam Carter
This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? 1. Server at friends house on fixed IP ADSL2 annex M for DNS, SMTP+IMAP mail, web+wiki, and a second sshd on port 443, so i can get to it from work :). 2. Home laptop, which runs vmware for Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does