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http://www.ibexpc.com/ (but I only bought one computer from them, and that was six years ago, so YMMV)

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant. mv
http://www.ibexpc.com/linuxsystems.html
http://gnupc.com/
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/produc ts/clients/workstationcert.html

"You must be on crack."
Must be. After all, I'm responding to your nut job comment.

"The BIOS on all Dell systems made in the past 4-5 years, maybe longer, can now be updated from Linux. You don't even need to reboot into DOS. Did others put that kind of effort in supporting customers?"
I have news for you. HP has been doing it for few years. I believe IBM as well. Matter of fact, every Linux embedded device manufactures has been.

"That crack must be really good."
Must be. Your rampant ignorance is starting to make me dazed.

"Dell has in my opinion been doing a decent job, given the constraints."
Huh? What constratins are you talking about? Oh you mean, like outsource call centers to India? If Dell doesn't want to support Linux, that's fine. Good for them. But if Dell is going to support Linux, at least do a half way decent job of doing it. It has been less than half ass device support and inadaquate engineers filling up Dell Linux department since 2001. For instance, getting Dell's onboard SATA chipset with kernel 2.4.x was pulling teeth. I was fraustrated up to my eye balls with their engineering staffs and ended up emailing the motherboard manufacture for support which emailed me within 10 minutes with module tarball attachment.

"Everything in my 600m is supported."
I'm happy for you. I really am.

"On my PowerEdge running Fedora, I can even tell which DIMM bank has been causing parity errors."
Yeah, that's great. So can you with memtest86+. http://www.memtest86.com/ I think, it's been around for several years now. It seems, you get amuzed a lot. Install memtest86 rpm package from Fedora distro CD and run memtest-setup from Fedora and grub will give you an option to boot you right into memtest86+.

"Their engineers have been more helpful than they were required to."
Really? Did they fix your car or something? Because they are supposed to resolve issues with every items they sell.

Alright, I don't mean to bash Dell fanboys out there, but this bs has to stop. Having low expectation from vendors and manufactures for supporting Linux makes you applaude for what they are "supposed" to do, then go right ahead. Just don't bitch about same type of support for Windows installed systems.

For 1) there are plenty of vendors offering pre-configured working Linux systems. Yeah, they're not Dell, but so what?

http://www.ibexpc.com/

For 2) you conveniently fail to say what features you feel are missing. I'm betting there aren't any, given that Linux has Gimp, Inkscape, OpenOffice, GnuCash and so on.

http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
http://web.mit.edu/is/topics/linux/equivalents.htm l

You're just rationalizing your laziness with convenient plausible-sounding excuses.

Here you go.

There are plenty of other companies that sell Linux an (sic) no-OS machines.

http://www.addonshop.com/
http://www.emperorlinux.com/
http://www.ibexpc.com/
http://www.koobox.com/
http://www.linare.com/
http://www.linspire.com/
http://www.linuxcertified.com/
http://www.linuxsyscorp.com/
http://www.microtelpc.com/
http://www.outpost.com/
http://shoprcubed.com/
http://www.sub300.com/
http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htm
http://www.walmart.com/
http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html
http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed
http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html
http://tuxmobil.org/ (general information)

Slashdot's lameness filter is actually pretty... well... lame. Defeating it is usually as easy as adding more text. You know, like this sentence. :-)

There are plenty of other companies that sell Linux an no-OS machines. http://www.addonshop.com/ http://www.emperorlinux.com/ http://www.ibexpc.com/ http://www.koobox.com/ http://www.linare.com/ http://www.linspire.com/ http://www.linuxcertified.com/ http://www.linuxsyscorp.com/ http://www.microtelpc.com/ http://www.outpost.com/ http://shoprcubed.com/ http://www.sub300.com/ http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htm http://www.walmart.com/ http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html http://tuxmobil.org/ (general information)

http://www.addonshop.com/ http://www.emperorlinux.com/ http://www.ibexpc.com/ http://www.koobox.com/ http://www.linare.com/ http://www.linspire.com/ http://www.linuxcertified.com/ http://www.linuxsyscorp.com/ http://www.microtelpc.com/ http://www.outpost.com/ http://shoprcubed.com/ http://www.sub300.com/ http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htm http://www.walmart.com/ http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html http://tuxmobil.org/ (general information) No OS (Sabio made by Quanta, like Dell-latitudes) http://www.avadirect.com/ http://www.asimobile.com/ http://www.powernotebooks.com/

http://www.addonshop.com/
http://www.emperorlinux.com/
http://www.ibexpc.com/
http://www.linare.com/
http://www.linspire.com/
http://www.linuxcertified.com/
http://www.microtelpc.com/
http://www.outpost.com/
http://shoprcubed.com/
http://www.sub300.com/
http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htm
http://www.walmart.com/
http://www.xandros.com/

http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html
http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed
http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html

http://tuxmobil.org/ (general information)

No OS

(Sabio made by Quanta, like Dell-latitudes)
http://www.avadirect.com/
http://www.asimobile.com/
http://www.powernotebooks.com/

I got a server from IbexPC.com a couple years back, and it's worked pretty well. It gets wonky if you eject a CD before shutting down the software reading it, but I rarely deal with CDs so it's not much of an issue for me. And the RPMs are a bit borked in Synaptic's eyes, but this is probably the fault of some early hack work on my part.

Wow, I am very surprised at that response. Rather than a typical form response, like most customer service areas, or no response at all, Intuit responded in a very professional way. Reading the paragraph at the bottom of his statement and the results of the test on the link at the bottom are convincingly positive. While the software does alter the boot sector, it doesn't seem to be in the interest of controlling their users' data. Rather, it seems to be a convenience to the customer. I won't disregard their software in the future; I'm always impressed by good customer service.

In that respect, Ibex PC and Hamilton Beach customer service departments are also very helpful.

Ben