A small note: X+SSH isn't very fast. Other software like VNC or NX generally work better, and Google wrote an open-source NX-compatible server:

http://code.google.com/p/neatx/

I think MacOS is close enough to a commercialization of Linux for the desktop to count as that. (I realize it's not based on Linux of course, but the result is very similar).

An OS that only runs on SSD's? commercialization of Linux for the desktop? I don't agree with you on this one.