Yes, yes! It will have PREVAILED just as in the meaning of this word in Iraq. Remember, we will prevail?

"Let me guess... Linux has doubled its market share... from 0.01% to 0.02%'
ha,ha,ha!
some people still live at 2001!
the Linux adoption is speeding!
by 2012 Linux will have prevailed!

Let me guess... Linux has doubled its market share... from 0.01% to 0.02%

netbooks are fairly classic vehicles for disruptive innovation. Don't expect to see massive take up in rich sectors. Market disruption occurs when a low cost product that is good enough for a big section of the population gets new users into a market. The technology improves and moves up the market pyramid displacing more expensive offerings as the user base grows. Give it a few years and a netbook will be able to do everything any top end PC can do and prices will go down making any premium for an OS license a bigger and bigger hit. At the same time Linux and the hardware will get better.

I bought an EEE 701 (with Xandros) for my girlfriend this xmas. She's in love with it! She has a decent desktop, and older laptop, and a Palm she has trouble keeping charged.

Even with the default Xandros with simple interface, she's using the media player, the PIM, and doing lots of browsing.

This is in the USA.

Ubuntu and Fedora are crap :)
They just like MS, great ideas with poor implementation. The difference is the price tag. Don't get me wrong, i do recommend people to use Ubuntu when i asked about user friendly distro, but it's still Crap :) (Gentoo is my way)
And by the way, Dell mini uses Ubuntu, so don't say there is nothing you like out there :)

Given that the Linux distributions which have been chosen so far for the mainstream netbooks are crap, Linux adoption should pick up even more once they choose the better mainstream distros. Fedora & Ubuntu both runs really well on them, so why do they still ship with rubbish like the crippled Xandros?

I have to say that I like the linux netbooks better than the windows. It is hard to find one around here with XP on it, I have seen a few, but mostly vista. I got a chance to use both a linux and a windows netbook. I have to say that the linux runs considerably faster than both the XP and vista models. They are also great for people who don't have a lot of money who need a computer to go. I use my ipod touch as a net book, but it is no where as powerful as some of the netbooks. It sure is cool though...