I've been pretty happy with the machines from System76<https://www.system76.com/>. They come with the most recent version of Ubuntu pre-installed.
However, as Tim says - installing Linux on any machine you can buy is a pretty simple process now. Cheers, Jim On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Tim Gruene <t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear Jie Liu, > > most Linux distributions are not too difficult to install, and with a > decent internet connection you only need to download a few MB for a > bootable CD for network installation - do you have a reason why you do > not want this yourself? > > Kind regards, > Tim > > On 03/15/2013 05:34 PM, jie liu wrote: > > Dear All > > > > I am planning to buy a linux workstation for crystallography. It > > seems that Dell does not offer workstations with linux right now. > > Any good experience to recommend? > > > > Thank you! > > > > Jie Liu > > > > - -- > - -- > Dr Tim Gruene > Institut fuer anorganische Chemie > Tammannstr. 4 > D-37077 Goettingen > > GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iD8DBQFRQ09xUxlJ7aRr7hoRAvJ+AJ9OM3AiV7RixUFaNqPCMbKhkKzqlwCgomP/ > 7o166epVERXwzoBe0/xp2s0= > =SbA8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Jim Fairman, Ph D. Crystal Core Leader I Emerald BioStructures <http://www.emeraldbiostructures.com/> Tel: 206-780-8914 Cell: 240-479-6575 E-mail: fairman....@gmail.com jfair...@embios.com