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The Economic Times (part of the India Times) is running a story which begins with the rather provocative line

The penguin’s come of age.

which is rather bully on the future of Linux as an enterprise desktop, among other, less flashy uses such as in the server room.

This has, of course, ignited the standard mudslinging on Digg, that bastion of the mouth-breathing lowest-common-denominator fanboys on both “sides” of the “debate”.

The article, however, is actually a cautiously optimistic wrap-up of recent doings and projections for Linux and other operating systems in India and the rest of the Asia-Pacific region.