"2001 is not going to be the year of the Penguin for home or business users that have yet to adopt Linux. Although Linux has grown by leaps and bounds during the last few years, it is still plagued with a lot of issues that will keep it away from being a 100 percent viable alternative to Windows for a long time. At the top of the list comes the simple fact that Linux, by design, is not a common person's operating system. Linux, like Unix, was designed with networking in mind and network security. Still, I hold out hope for Linux. Should the next few years show us more improvements, perhaps it will, one day, be a great threat to Microsoft. I do think we'll see more companies using Linux for some of their file/print servers, but as far as Linux being a desktop replacement for most average computer users and businesses, well, there's always next year."