We've been hearing this since the late 90's.

As much as I'd love a true third competitor on the market for consumer OS's it just doesn't seem like Linux will be the one.

Remember Corel Linux, Linspire, Red Hat, Xandros and the many other "Consumer Linux's"?

They all claimed they'd bring it to the market, made nice boxes, nicer CD's, manuals and managed to get it on shelves at retailers. And they all failed at it.