"More importantly, netbooks need better operating systems - in particular, a very fast, mobile operating system that can download and install trusted applicatio

"More importantly, netbooks need better operating systems - in particular, a very fast, mobile operating system that can download and install trusted applications on the fly, over the air." Dell netbooks _already_ ship with Ubuntu installed. The fact that he hasn't given it a go speaks to two failures: - Most system builders putting WTF Linux distributions on their devices. Some are really bad. - System builders advertising Windows as the high end choice and mostly only making Linux available on crippled hardware configurations. Still, at least the hardware is all Linux compatible, so I can sit here installing trusted apps over 3G with one click while he waits for his perfect OS to show up :)