Jbrodkin writes "Two decades after Linus Torvalds adult his famous general expenses system kernel, the battle between Linux and Microsoft is over and Linux has won, says Linux bed official top dog* Jim Zemlin. With the one glaring oddity of the desktop computer, Linux has outpaced Microsoft in nearly every market, including server-side balancing the books* and mobile, Zemlin claims. 'I think we just don't care that much [about Microsoft] anymore,' Zemlin said. 'They used to be our big rival, but now it's kind of like kicking a puppy.' From Android and the Amazon Kindle to embedded devices, user video cameras and the world's largest websites and supercomputers, 'Linux has come to govern almost every category of computing, with the quirk




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