Thanks to Scott Marlowe
for this report.
There’s been a lot of noise lately about Dell and the other big
PC companies selling Linux boxes. So I set out to see how many of
the smaller companies I could find that sell Linux systems.
After looking through the web pages of about forty smaller
system integrators, I found a few that indeed list Linux as on of
the OSes you can choose on your new computer.
Treasure Chest
Computers
Adamant Computers
Acentia Computers
Note that none of these companies claim any expertise at
installing Linux, so it’s still quite likely you’ll wind up with
hardware inside of your machine that isn’t Linux compatible.
Another interesting point is that more and more manufacturers
are listing “no operating system -$69” as an option in their
configurator cgi scripts. The Microsoft tax is finally starting to
go away.