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Summary
The old flame wars asked which operating system would win. They missed what was actually happening. Linux never took the desktop. Still, it ended up running most of the world's servers, the vast majority of embedded systems, and every Android phone. Automox CISO Jason Kikta brings 25 years of his own history with it. He started in 1999 with a magazine CD-ROM of the French Mandrake distro, which he dual booted alongside Windows. The industry made a full about-face along the way. Steve Ballmer called Linux "a cancer," and then Microsoft became a top-five contributor to the kernel. Satya Nadella later said he loves it. For Kikta, Linux still matters as a place to get close to the hardware and experiment. That keeps pushing the rest of computing forward.
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