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The Day Linux Crashed

To be fair, the number 77 car was not a favorite to win the race. In fact, Moreno started from the eleventh row – the last row – after just barely qualifying. But most of that was irrelevant: Linux was out there. Tux 500 was highlighted prominently in eleven major newspapers, dozens of minor ones, two major non-tech magazines, and dozens of non-Linux/tech publications on paper and across the web.

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