I got a Dell laptop a few years ago, and while scouting around for it's replacement I noticed the Ubuntu Linux folks are still proud to say their stuff not only runs on Dell kit still, but that it's available to purchase and have supported direct from Dell:

"purchase Ubuntu on Dell"
http://www.ubuntu.com/dell

Rather annoyingly VMWare's 'vmware-mount' command mounts the image read-only, so if, for instance, you need to remove the device drivers that make VirtualBox choke, you can't.

This is easy enough to get around, however:

Today I went to start Windows as guest in my Ubuntu install of VMWare and, boom, VMWare has broken itself during one of the prior kernel updates (because it doesn't use DKMS or release patches quickly enough).

You can now play lemmings online, in JavaScript (i.e. without a browser plugin).
In other words, the virtual language running in the cross platform virtual language inside your web browser, running on top of your GUI, on top of your operating system, is as powerful as one whole Amiga.

I don't normaly do the whole 'meme of the week' thing, but I thought the one on Stuff That Happens was interesting.