IIRC it expands to a 100 meg disk image, of which about 50 megs is used. http://sourceforge.net/projects/user-mode-linux/files/Root%20filesystems/1/Debian-3.0r0.ext2.bz2/download It's an image you can copy right onto the drive. It was made for User Mode Linux, but I'll bet it'll work with only a little bit of apt-getting. Then you can dist-upgrade to Lenny.

Geeks understand technology much better than they understand market dynamics, and this weeks-long "Linux is threatened" meme is getting old. Add those two things up and I've got to say something.

OS X will not be greater a threat to Linspire or Xandros or the like than it already is, because OS X will never be able to (officially) run on the same machines that Linspire and Xandros run on: Generic x86 machines. And what does that mean for the market?

Well, if you wanna run OS X and you don't already have a Mac, you'll have to buy a Mac. Just like today. If people wanted to run OS X instead of their favorite Linux desktop distro, they would have already bought a Mac. Since they haven't, that's your proof right there that nothing major is going to change.

I'm sure a few (including me) will try to reach triple-boot nirvana after the Intel-based Macs come out, but not most users.

This doesn't fundamentally change anything for the average Linux desktop user.

Steve