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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (2177)	2/21/2000 11:32:00 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) of 2615

Rusty, great articles There is now a real time charting software for Linux and it's from iqc which is now Silicon Investor. This is an email I sent to a friend Dan K. and having to do with my install. From: ..... To:..... James Burke, Connections. smartmoney.com Is Intel Doing an End-Run Around Microsoft? I found the link to this story on the Linux Stocktalk at Sillicon investor. Well this has been my belief for some time. I believe that humans at Intel remember being treated by the highhand of msft but making money is agnostic and they went along. But Intel is an engineering company and Engineers would prefer to be supporting the best of tech. Intel was though really independent of msft but msft piggy evolution created more demand for Intel's latest. The current internet related applications are creating their own demand and intel is getting more independent of msft and in fact web serving, content creation are big compute demand growth areas. Nt and win2000 will not I believe scale well where the internet is going. The main stream companies supporting Linux development, SGI, Ibm, Hp will greatly increase the bang of Linux. The Sgi out of the box cluster is a prime example of new COTS scalability of Linux. So now msft is more dependent on intel. NEW TOPIC and why I'm really writing. Well now there is another new key application available for Linux. On Friday I was emailed by John Busby from iqc iqchart.com So now iqchart is now available for operation under Linux. This allows realtime data and charting with technical indicators. On my multidisplay multidesktop Linux boxes this is fantastic. But I also learned some other related Linux news while attempting to install iqchart. I still run Redhat 5.2 on my main machine. iqchart first release uses glibc which became standard in redhat 6. So I had a redhat 6.1 cd that I picked up for 2 bucks at the Linux Bazaar weeks back. I installed the 6.1 but made a mistake that I didnot realize and I could not get intstall up with gui and networking. So I decided to reinstall but dropped the damn cd and it chipped or scratched and I could nolonger use it. I decided to download a redhat iso file. My first attempt (from redhat) over night failed and I was in my second attempt (from slackware cdrom.com which was faster than redhat) when Idecided to call my good friend Hal the former Man of watman associates. I had a long conversation with Hal, he's a walk on water programmer. I got a good overview of java/jre compatibilty issues as well as libc glibc considerations. Then we started discussing distributions and Hal said he had changed from using Redhat to Mandrake as Mandrake was redhat plus. He also said "Ya know redhat is getting bigger and like msft they seem to be including less and less with current distributions. You know they no longer include xv. Mandrake had more applications and a better install." Now this conversation was very fortuitous as only being 2 hours into a 4 hour redaht iso download I realized I also had a 6.1 Mandrake 2 buck cdrom. So what happened. So 12 minutes to install mandrake. 5 minutes to install AcceleratedX. Multidisplay based on libc 5 minutes to config multidisplay and install users. 2 minutes to ftp to acute and get the iqc tgz files (my local redhat 5.2) 10 seconds to install (tar xzvf ....) 1 minute to figure out how to start (put the bin in my path) 3 minutes to remember my password. (Well I turned 50 today) iqchart for linux is up and running. So to me the moral of this story is Redhat may have a very difficult time creation a revenue stream that will support their current stock price. Also Mandrake is an execellent distribution. This week I going to put together a p3 650e system. This system will have 512 of memory. I decided to upgrade as I'm going to try to use wmware to run a win 98 vitual machine within Linux. As I trade with fidelity and their active trader uses IE only. I'm going to try to get all things trading into one machine. I will also set this machine up to run 4 displays. Boy this tech is fun... or is it painful. ---------------------------- Tom Watson tosiwmee

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