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aren't all usable Gentoo systems modified?
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Very cool! They probably use Gentoo, since they need a highly customized distro, and Gentoo provides a great toolset for rolling your own distro.  |
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Is any publicity good publicity? Because there's a lot to criticize in high-frequency trading.
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| djdunn wrote: | | aren't all usable Gentoo systems modified? |
I think in this case it means that they modified source code at the kernel level, although your point is valid in that all Gentoo systems are modified (try to think of two people having the same configuration, unlikely) |
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Great comment.
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What Stock Exchange was it again, that first spent millions of '£' into MS server and then switched to Linux for reliability? 
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| disi wrote: | | What Stock Exchange was it again, that first spent millions of '£' into MS server and then switched to Linux for reliability? |
 
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