Calling Linux "not mainstream" is fair enough. Calling it "not a success" is downright wrong and misguided. Linux is successful beyond the wildest dreams of an

Calling Linux "not mainstream" is fair enough. Calling it "not a success" is downright wrong and misguided. Linux is successful beyond the wildest dreams of anyone. No-one would have believed back in the early 1990's that an open source Unix system would one day become as big as Linux is. Linux powers Google, Facebook, Twitter, and a lot many other popular web sites. Linux is used on Android and a few lesser known mobile systems. Many if not most of the supercomputers in the Top 500 list are powered by Linux. Hell, measured by the number of CPU's it runs on, Linux may even be the most widely used operating system today and it's been steadily increasing. (HN: anyone have any stats on this one?) Go check your facts. > BTW, my favorite "Linux is awesome" moment? Watching an inflight system in front of my seat in a Delta flight reboot.. We've all seen a public display with a rebooted Linux setup or stuck in bootloader. However, Windows blue screen is a lot more common.