“As many of us who watch the Linux market know, the past week
has seen the announcement of two markedly different plug-and-play
Linux computers. I was excited by one and not the other. To my
surprise, the one that didn’t interest me has taken off like a
rocket to the moon while it is still too early say how the other
will do. The good news, however, is that desktop Linux has finally
gone mainstream.“The two boxes are of course the Asus Eee PC, a lightweight
sub-notebook, and the Everex gPC, a fully configured but low grunt
desktop…”