....i find myself partial to the Modest variety of Mice...but then again, that's just me...

Likux is not in a sorry state. When you get up close I've seen countless people go "And did you say this stuff was all free?" Then that's usually followed by comments on how robust this OS is and how it's really in a postition to start compeating w/ the enterprise Unixes (Solaris, IRIX, Tru64, ect.) out there. These are pople who though Linux was not ready for enterprise untill theay really took a good hard long look at it. So in my experence the reverse is true. There's not enough publicity and when people who know what it is there looking at take a closer look theay are usualy plesently suprised at the power and comunity support behind Linux.