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The desktop and the developer

I was at the OpenStack Summit this week. The overwhelming majority of OpenStack deployments are Linux-based, yet the most popular laptop vendor (by a long way) at the conference was Apple. People are writing code with the intention of deploying it on Linux, but they’re doing so under an entirely different OS.

But what’s really interesting is the tools they’re using to do so. When I looked over people’s shoulders, I saw terminals and a web browser.

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