svrart, what do you use for charting in linux? IB charts leave much to be desired in my experience, plus from what understand they aren't even realtime
i trade longer time frames and find ib charts to be adequate. if you are running windows based software its possible on ubuntu by installing a windows emulator such as Wine. I havent used it but have heard good things about it. Good luck.
right on, long time frames are prob the way to go if you got the capital. i would actually suggest folks use virtualization (kvm, vmware, virtualbox) on something as critical, I haven't used Wine in a while but it always seemed to have some issues. currently i chart though my accounts with TOS, which has a great platform but unfortunately no api. which is why i'm starting to look elsewhere. so 64 bit java 6 is the jvm of choice for those using tws? i've heard chatter about java 5 being better, but can't find a good reference for why. as a side note i prefer opensuse to ubuntu, i suggest those new to linux give it a shot. seems a lot of folks think ubuntu is the only slice of linux around, that's def not the case; there are tons.