Financial Business's Linux Use Doubled in 2004

A beautiful mind writes "Linux usage got boosted in the financial sector thanks to mainstream suppliers like IBM and Sun from 27 percent last year to 58 percent in 2005, according to a report from financial technology researchers Finextra. In fact the growing support for Linux has been the single biggest technology change in financial organisations over the past 12 months, say the researchers writing in the Financial Technology Strategies 2005 survey."

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[Stevyn]

I'm running the 2.6.10 kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop myself. To be fair, I haven't had a kernel panic, but I've had X lock up on me when trying some experimental settings for the NVIDIA drivers. That's about it actually. I do agree with you though. It's not good when people assume linux is 100% stable.

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[Digital Pizza]

I had major problems in Fedora Core 2, especially with X-Windows; I tried Suse 9.1 and had the same exact problem: switching virtual terminals a couple of times (or force-qutting X) would cause the whole machine to lock up completely (no response to pings either)!

This was apparently a problem with the then-new X.org server; my Dell c600 has an ATI Rage128 chip in it, fully supported by the open source X driver for years. Had to go back to Fedora Core 1. I don't think it's right that X can take down the whole machine!

Now I'm running Fedora Core 3 and everything is working perfectly! While the problems do eventually get worked out, Linux does go through some rough spells, especially when something major changes (like a new X server).