Here is the small and inexpensive laptop strutting its stuff when it is not restricted to run other the Xandros derivative, which is self-limiting and gives us grief. Here's Xubuntu (dual-boot actually).
Members of the Linux community have complained that the hot new sub-notebook from Asus, the eeePC, may have violated the spirit of the Linux General Public License (GPL).
It seems likely the end of Vista 10 coinciding with a sharp rise in memory prices (and now energy prices) will benefit GNU/Linux and therefore give us more to write about