2012's Top five Linux stories with one big conclusion

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | December 26, 2012

2012 was a very quiet, but very successful year for Linux. How successful? The most popular end-user operating system is now Linux.

It was a quiet, but very successful year for Linux. 2012 didn't see any single large Linux news story. Instead, we saw many small Linux stories that, when added together, led to Linux becoming the single most important operating system of all. Here's the count-down to the top of the operating system stack...