Open Source Revolution for the Mainstream about to happen

Could this be the year that Open Source begins to go mainstream?

Arguments are that;

Windows Vista is the last OS M$ will make.

MACs have gone Unix based, and it appears Apple will not focus on Computers; perhaps they will just make stylish iBooks and iPCs with flavors of Unix and bootstrap on them.

And, the expense of productivity apps is getting ridiculous, and the ThumbDrive is getting huge.

Combine the emergence of reliable and easy to use Open Source and Freeware apps, and you can get off the commercial entrapment band wagon.

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Personal Experience;

I have all but abandoned commercial software installed on PCs and gone totally to a USB based application server, starting with 'PortableApps' suite, adding a lot more out there (Google for portable applications), and using the open PStart software to manage my little 4GB app server (and test platform webserver, and web development platform).

Forget U3; it is commercial, proprietary, and depends on writing to the registry. It is not portable if it uses the registry.

I am finally going Linux - getting off the Windows as much as possible (I still need it for Gaming).

Fedora Core is free, but if you don't want to go hard core, get Ubuntu.

Don't want to abandon Windows, but want to be productive? Go open source with the apps!

Checkout these handy compilations to get started;

Software for Starving Students

OpenCD4.0

And, learn to torrent!