As further proof that c|net hires only the best and the brightest, Steven Shankland puffs up a piece about the release of the 2.6.16 kernel with this evidence:
Linux is most widely used on low-end computers, but work is still under way to adapt it for large multiprocessor systems.
Mr. Shankland obviously means large, multi-processor systems like those on the list of Top 500 Supercomputers. The trend obviously shows that Linux does not run most of them.
I trust you can hear the sarcasm dripping from my pen. It’s nice to know that the 2.6.16 release includes support for Cell, Niagara (or UltraSPARC T1), and Oracle Cluster Filesystem, but Mr. Shankland could have stopped there and left his shoe out of his mouth.