San Diego Union-Tribune: Five Questions: Kevin Carmony

"Is Linux growing in popularity with home users?

"On the commercial side, the server side, Linux companies such as Red Hat and Novell have 25 percent of the back-office market. Companies such as Google run on Linux. That's starting to trickle down to the desktop. It's starting to gain traction. The best numbers I've seen put Linux at about 2 percent of the desktop market, but who knows how many free downloads there have been? It's a tricky number to get your hands around..."

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