In Slashdot this AM: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/28/0658206 I'm not surprised the hardware'll be Windows-capable, as the low price of $179.99 derives from using standard mass market laptop designs already in circulation, (with a few new wrinkles) such that *any* OS worth anything should be able to target it (and Windows is worth *something* no?). The question 'is Linux in trouble?' is of course entirely rhetorical and it's not. The students I'm working with already have a well developed hacker ethic: if the source is closed, it's "for dummies" (meant pejoratively, like in the movie 'Idiocracy'). Geeks of tomorrow use what geeks of today use: intelligent stuff. But sure, let the dumb kids in the USA use their stoopid Microsoft. We all know the USA is at least five years behind when it comes to teaching math and science, so why not computers as well? Kirby