The economy is falling as fast as temperatures in November. Recession seems certain, if it's not already here. The stock market's performance resembles Disney World's Space Mountain roller coaster. And every open source vendor, every Linux project, will be touched in one way or another.

Today's news that TSE (Tokyo Stock Exchange) has moved to Red Hat's RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) as the operating platform for its next-generation "Arrowhead" trading system shouldn't come as a surprise. Linux has become the smart stock market's operating system of choice.

Anyone who still thinks Linux is just for geeky hobbyists needs to wake up and look at the stock market. Big business runs on Linux and no where is that more apparent on the world’s major stock markets.

The London Stock Exchange has said its new open source-based trading system will save it at least £10 million annually, as well as driving new business.

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Comment: after the first 10,000 units sold out in 48 hours, this item is now again in stock. In my view, the low cost hardware is only part of the success, the gOS web and Google friendly operating system and Apps are probably the killer.

The London Stock Exchange has just crashes again, having made the mistake of betting on Microsoft.

What I’ve noticed time and again in the Wesnoth forums is that there are many people there that are truly interested in helping you create better art. This is because by helping people become better artists, everyone wins. The artist becomes better at what she does while the community benefits from having new and better artwork created for the game.

Space enthusiast and engineer Paul Wooster wants to open the source code for outer space, because, he says, it should be easier for everyone who wants to contribute to human activities in space to do so, not just people with advanced degrees in rocketry.

"The GNU Volunteer Coordinators can assist you if you wish to help the GNU Project. They will be able to put you in touch with other people interested in or working on similar projects. When you have selected a task from our task lists, please let them know you're interested in working on