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Linux Desktops Dominate at Black Hat

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SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Jul 31, 2012

There are some people that don’t believe the Linux Desktop is relevant.

I’m not one of them, and apparently neither are hordes of security professionals that were at the recent Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas (including me).

The show itself doesn’t calculate who uses what..but Aruba Networks (they have a Linux powered set of wireless routers) does measure.

For desktop OS users of the Wi-Fi network, the top desktop OS was…

LINUX

SMK

Sean Michael Kerner

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