We have hardware manufacturers and OEMs willing to crank out supported systems. The last barrier to adoption are retail chains catering to the Wintel monopoly. Read all about it in a thoroughly researched report by The Association of Open Source Software Companies of Portugal.

see Laptop retail oligopoly:
the unnoticed digital divide

“We conclude that retail oligopolies are very prone to filtering new products independently of the likelihood of their acceptance by consumers when the new products compete with heavily established ones.
…
The Linux on laptops combination became viable relatively late, in terms of Microsoft presence. But having been technically possible and economically interesting for many years, it is still kept out of the market by the retail anomalies described in this article. That happens even in the presence of interested consumers and suppliers. 
We therefore question the effectiveness of the existing legal framework (section 5) with the following statement: from the standpoint of consumers and suppliers, the behavior of a small number of dominant retail chains is not significantly different from that of a single retailer. 
Regulators  should evaluate the direct  and indirect  losses  caused by  this  situation [7] and put corrective measures in place.”

• PostgreSQL improves scalability with release of version 9.2beta:
  “Major performance and scalability advances in this version include:
  • Index-only scans, allowing users to avoid inefficient scans of base tables
  • Enhanced read-only workload scaling to 64 cores and over 300,000 queries per second
  • Improvements to data write speeds, including group commit
  • Reductions in CPU power consumption
    Cascading replication, supporting geographically distributed standby databases

  PostgreSQL 9.2 will also offer many new features for application developers, including:

  • JSON data support, enabling hybrid document-relational databases
  • Range types, supporting new types of calendar, time-series and analytic applications
  • Multiple improvements to ALTER and other statements, easing runtime database updates

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• Debian 7.0 Wheezy adds new features to the installer (WPA support, Btrfs, Linux 3.2.16, convenient multiple .iso in USB stick installs, ZFS support, etc.) and release forecast for early in 2013. I have been using the testing flavour for months and the only problem is the steady stream of updates.
• vlc has had a billion (10⁹) downloads since 2005, not counting the GNU/Linux installations which are usually a part of a distro. It looks like hundreds of millions use/choose it.
• The Debian Administrator’s Handbook has broken even and has been released as a work under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. I learned a lot from this book before I finished it.
• Pakistan donates 125K Ubuntu GNU/Linux PCs to university students increasing opportunities and introducing future leaders to FLOSS.

There are a lot of good things happening in the world of FLOSS. This list is just the tip of a huge iceberg.