Links for Monday October 20^th, 2008

• Analysis: netbooks a challenge and opportunity for Linux: It's all netbooks today - Ars digs into the oft-cited quote from MSI that they are seeing 4x the returns on their Linux-based netbooks. Definitely some room for Linux to improve, but it looks like they are on it. Yet, as is always the case with Linux on the desktop, it seems like it'll be great next year...

• Review: a weekend with Dell's Inspiron Mini 9 - Boing Boing Gadgets: Man, I am sorely tempted to buy one of these things.

• Welcome to a new era of computing… netbook and Atom: More positive impressions of a Netbook - it really seems to me (without having used one) that this concept has legs. Which could potentially be bad for Apple.

• Schneier on Security: The NSA Teams Up with the Chinese Government to Limit Internet Anonymity: While I have no idea something like this would be implemented from a technical perspective -- it's pretty damn annoying that the NSA would be participating in something that so clearly violates core American principles.