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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Linux still miles behind Microsoft

"At the LinuxWorld trade show here this week, advocates said the next big challenge for the loose-knit 'free software' movement is to create a reliable way to run desktop computers and perform mainstream office tasks," reports Reuters.

"'It works 98 percent of the time. But it's the 2 percent of the time it doesn't that kills you,' Jeremy White, a leading developer of Linux applications, told an audience of network administrators."

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