Ah, those Aussies...jumping ahead of everyone! ;-) Seems netbooks are flying off the shelves...with GNU/Linux! ;-) Personally, I just purchased a nice linux equipped netbook, and I'm delighted with it so far. Like carrying a paperback, and it's heaven to surf and email in a coffeeshop at my leisure! :-) And I've seen some estimates that total linux users is about 60 million at the moment (and of course, growing everyday! :-)) Here's an article about Ubuntu linux and Fedora linux specifically.