It appears that this holiday season the gPC is not the only mainstream Linux PC to get a lot of attention. The Asus Eee PC, a $400 laptop that runs a basic version of Linux, is sold out at Amazon and Best Buy, where it has received a 4.5/5 user rating at both places. In addition, in Amazon’s top seller list for computers and PC hardware the Eee PC is number 10 and on CNET’s most wanted list the Eee PC is number 7.

As mentioned before, the Eee PC is the second low-cost Linux computer to be quickly sold out at major retailers in the past few weeks. It seems that mainstream Linux adoption will not come from the high end, but from the low end where all people need is a cheap computer to browse the web and do email. Hopefully, as Linux becomes more common, we will see much higher end PCs with Linux being sold just as fast, although this may take some time.

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