"Computer hardware manufacturers obviously feel there's a large untapped market among the world's young: Witness, the Eee, the Cloudbook, the One.
"These mini-laptops--and there's a new one announced every week--have three major things in common: They're cheap, they're aimed at schoolkids and students, and they run Linux operating systems.
"I suspect the inclusion of Linux OSes is more to do with keeping down production costs than a deliberate shift away from Microsoft and Apple..."