Was this the year of the Linux desktop? Dell, OLPC, Walmart, Chumby, and now this? (not to mention the slew of mobile Linux devices)

Today I got a friendly little package from Taiwan... Inside, I found the smallest laptop I've ever seen before. The Asus EeePC, preloaded with Linux (Xandros/Debian Etch) and KDE/IceWM.

Less than 1kg, solid state drive, and pretty good performance (900mhz/intel graphics) means that this little puppy will be my new carry-around laptop :)

Best part: *everything* works in Linux out of the box. Perfect suspend/resume, integrated webcam, and wireless support. Yay! Now I know how Mac users have felt for the last few years ;)

Of course, the community that has already begun sprouting up doesn't hurt either ;)

The keyboard will take some getting used to, but otherwise so far I'm very happy with it :)

Hooray for Linux, and hooray for companies finally starting to get it!