Does vendor support matter? "Support is extremely overvalued, and lack of support is too often used as a reason to squash a great tool or piece of software."
OMSA Knoppix is a Knoppix 3.4 based LiveCD with Dell Open Manage. Content: Dell's Open Manage, KDE, recovery tools (http://www.datasol.org/recovery-solutions.php).
Sven Hergenhahn created a live CD based on Knoppix 3.4 that allows you to run Dell OpenManage directly from the CD. There are two flavors: * One is a full featured Knoppix CD with KDE and almost all recovery tools (614 MB) * the other is a stripped down v