This looks good, but it's a bit pricey for my tastes and that hardware is an unreliable brick of a machine. I'd love to see someone hit the market with a worki

This looks good, but it's a bit pricey for my tastes and that hardware is an unreliable brick of a machine. I'd love to see someone hit the market with a working Linux-ready netbook. I used to have an Acer One cobbled into that state, but the lack of direct support from the vendor meant that things like power management and sleep-on-lid-close never quite worked right. It's the little things you miss when you go off the vendor's book on operating system choice. On the other hand, the stock Vista on that machine was dog-slow. Being able to strip down the crap from the UI and run much faster was a Godsend for hacking around on projects while away from the desk.