So it was a quiz show on Australia’s national broadcaster, ABC.
If you watched that episode of Hard Quiz, the question was, Who is Linus Torvalds?
And one of the contestants actually got it right, by answering that He was the creator of Linux.
so if people outside the Tech field know this, does that mean Linux is mainstream?
I know the question about whether Linux is mainstream or not is a case of moving goalposts, a bit like is this the year of Linux on the desktop. I have seen Linux mentioned in a PC magazine a number of times recently which is heaps more then 10 years ago. Maybe my expectations have changed and I now want more.
I would love to say this is an indication that Linux is well on the way to being mainstream.