[HLUG] Power of Open Source

Fri Sep 17 07:17:09 UTC 2010

Hi

Couple of recent items in the News that perhaps could be mentioned on
Saturday for SFD to persuade people what you can do and is being done with
'free' software.

Pi record smashed as team finds two-quadrillionth digitThis was on BBC Radio
2 news this morning .. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11313194

what's interesting here is they used Apache Hadoop, which is of course *open
source *....

Secondly, along similar lines, 90% of the world super computers, using Linux
.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500 and all the top 10 of the list.

See everyone tomorrow

Julian