Nor do a lot of Windows Vista installs. Can you have those features on Linux/Mac OS X? Yes (excluding parental control, and keeping in mind we are talking about "approaches" more than how a certain feature exactly works. Because MS has patented that exact method so no one else can legally use it).

In the end, the OS is as secure as the user keeps it. You can have a super secure Windows/Linux/Mac installation, or equally have a very loose one.

And effectively hardening your OS implies you have to understand you might lose some functionality (see all those apps on Windows that fire up unneeded UAC prompts by doing the very wrong thing, or those apps on Linux that are happily unaware of SELinux) and do not bitch about it with the wrong people (the OS makers).

Although I concede you that there has been a certain mindset of "I run Linux/Mac OS so I'm inherently secure" that needs to be eradicated ASAP

Back on the topic, it doesn't matter what OS you choose, but develop good policies and stick with them and you'll be reasonably secure.

More correctly, it preserves the author right to decide under which conditions said work can be copied, and under which conditions said work can be modified.

Creative Commons (and Open Source) use the copyright mechanism extensively and that is, in fact, their legal stand.

I'm typing this from my 901 running Fedora 9.

It does not work (completely) out of the box; the things that you need to tweak are the following:

Boot Fedora from USB, by downloading any live iso (or the netinstall if you are short on space) and following http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo (or the relevant page in the manual: I'm frankly more happy with the manual)

Install the whole thing (SSD users might want to check out Theodore T'so blog on how to correctly format an SSD to have semi-decent performances)

See that it works "sort of"

Check out http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Eee_PC. It does not have all the solutions but has valid pointers for googling.

The GMA950 is going to be a pain as usual, so if you plan to run compiz like I do you should google for optimizations of the driver.
It mostly boils down to inserting
Option "MigrationHeuristics" "greedy"
in the Device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf but this might be outdated information.

However, this is to improve performances, the stuff will work (just slow, and compiz can REALLY slow down apps like Firefox)