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A headline like that is bound to draw the ire of the Macintosh faithful. After all, since Microsoft, which can marshal its forces and target competitors at will with lethal precision, hasn't finished-off Apple after all these years (and I'm not saying that this was necessarily a Redmond goal), how on earth can an operating system like Linux spell trouble for Apple?
The software giant ventured into hostile territory on Wednesday to argue its case during a live debate over the future of the Linux desktop.
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If you're looking for relatively straightforward Linux-based office productivity, you should have few problems with this distribution.
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