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Today we bring you an interesting anniversary, Linux helping to set a world record and Israeli troops making some really basic mistakes…

Oh, and a few more as well…

Today in Computer History

October 20, 2004

The First Ubuntu Linux Distribution Released

Today, six years ago history in desktop Linux was made. Today in 2004 the first Ubuntu was unleashed on the public.

Ye have come a long way Ubuntu, a long way.

Read the computerhistory.org entry here, and the mail announcing the relase can be found HERE.

London Stock Exchange smashes world record trade speed with Linux

WOOT! Linux smashes the trade speed record on the London stock exchange. In fairness it is probably more to do with the software running on the Linux backbone, but still. Suck on that .net!

To put the time quoted in the linked article into perspective, they can now do 2777.77777etc trades in the time it takes you to blink. Awesome.

Read about it at ComputerworldUK.com

Israel restricts troop tweets

Right. So Israel is restricting Twitter and other social network use by its troops while they are deployed. Stands to reason – according to the NEWS24 article one troop leaked plans for a patrol on Facebook.

Musta been the noob that did that. Sigh. Well done new guy…

Read about it at NEWS24.com

Dead Sea Scrolls given new lease of life… by being published online

Ooh, the actual scrolls are going online. Nice. They will be put online complete with scholarly translation.

Exciting stuff.

Read about the history of these and other historical titbits about the scrolls at the Daily Mail

Internet users to surpass 2 billion by Dec

Wowee, 2BILLION. Honestly that is a bit less than I expected, but an interesting milestone nonetheless.

The Hindustan Times has the news

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