[TriLUG] Ideas for Replacing Home Office Workhorse Computer?

[John Broome via TriLUG]

Welp, i made an unflattering noise when I looked at the "Thelio Massive"
model.  I have no need for that much horsepower, but man that's a nice
looking setup.

On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 3:20 PM Scott Chilcote via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Hello TriLUG,
>
> First off, I'd like to thank all of those who responded on this thread.
> Lots of great suggestions and some interesting alternative options.  I
> haven't made a decision yet, but my dear wife made a particularly
> intriguing recommendation last week.
>
> We have both attended SELF (Southeast Linuxfest) a couple of times, and
> we saw a presentation by System76 at the last one.  We were impressed,
> and she went on to spec and order a laptop from them last year.  She's
> very happy with the build quality and the optimized Linux distribution
> they installed.
>
> She reminded me that they also build and sell customized Linux desktops
> (and servers).
>
> I apologize if this sounds like a commercial, I don't have any
> involvement with them yet.  But looking at their website's system
> configurator, I could easily spec and order a desktop system that would
> run laps around this old Mac Pro, be just as quiet, and arguably better
> looking.  It's not fair to compare directly because the Mac is 10+ years
> old.  But with the System76 mid-range desktop I could move up to twelve
> cores, get 32 GB of RAM and greatly improved peripheral I/O for
> significantly less money.
> And the chassis is designed to be expanded a whole lot more if needed.
>
> I'm not saying that they compete with DIY pricing, far from it.  But
> their website states that they build open sourced hardware that is OSHWA
> certified using open standards where possible, and GPL/Creative Commons
> licensing.  They've been around for a good while, so there's hope that
> they'll provide decent support.
>
> Do any Tri-LUGgers have any direct experience with them that you
> wouldn't mind sharing?  I know that I could same some $$$ by building
> from parts, but for this use case I need a vendor provided system with
> support.
>
> Thanks again,
>
>   Scott C.
>
>
> On 12/17/18 5:05 PM, Scott Chilcote via TriLUG wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > My home office computer is getting long in the tooth.  It's an
> > all-aluminum mac pro from 2007, has eight 2.8 GHz cores, and has been
> > upgraded over the years to 24 GB of memory and SSD drives.
> >
> > I use this box to run vmware guests with vmware fusion, and with as many
> > as four running at the same time.  It has been great for this purpose,
> > being wonderfully quiet and with scant evidence of bogging down.
> >
> > <snippity>
>
>
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> Scott Chilcote
> scottchilcote at ncrrbiz.com
> Cary, NC USA
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