On 2021-08-05 10:19 p.m., Chuck Payne wrote:
Doug,
So most of my hardware is Dell, with a few SuperMicro. I have no issues. Most my servers are running openSUSE Tumbleweed. My hardware is old donated. Not sure why you having issues, but I recommend Dells.
My main WebApp front end Nginx running openSUSE 15.3 on a SFF Dell optiplex 755, very good luck. I am running Dell Hardware that older than my 17 year son, running 64-Bit TumbleWeed with great success. No issue with NMap, no Nanny program blocking. I also have a few Dell PowerConnect Switches.
Sorry you had issues, but it strange. I have some newer optiplex 7xxx seriers I bought off ebay for a $100 that are great Linux Desktops.
My desktop is a Optiplex 755 tower. It was just over C$100 from a local discount vendor with delivery, so in the same price range as yours. Yes it has that extensive setup menus, but being used to Sony camera setup menus this was a no-brainer for me, but I find it perfectly adequate. This model has no provision for external locks. Yes it runs openSUSE. The 755 was recommended to me by a friend who has five of them and a 780 as well. (I don't ask what he does with them!)
I can't stand HPE or Lenovo Hardware.
I have mixed feelings. While Doug may depreciate a store of that name I have no problems with discount refurbished electronics in general. -- “Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market,” -- James Glattfelder. http://jth.ch/jbg
On 2021-08-06 7:37 a.m., Anton Aylward wrote:
While Doug may depreciate a store of that name I have no problems with discount refurbished electronics in general.
I have also bought some refurb computers over the years. Never had a problem with one, until the HP I bought several years ago for my firewall croaked a few months ago.
On 2021-08-06 8:47 a.m., James Knott wrote:
On 2021-08-06 7:37 a.m., Anton Aylward wrote:
While Doug may depreciate a store of that name I have no problems with discount refurbished electronics in general.
I have also bought some refurb computers over the years. Never had a problem with one, until the HP I bought several years ago for my firewall croaked a few months ago.
A HP laptop I bought (at expense at the time, but it paid its way) eventually gave up to a fuzzed out screen. I could probably have replaces the part from eBay for a few dollars if i knew more about which part I needed. That might even happen on day. But as it stands I can telnet/ssh into it. Right now it's under by desk running a local database service for my local web services. -- “Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market,” -- James Glattfelder. http://jth.ch/jbg
On 06/08/2021 16.39, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 2021-08-06 8:47 a.m., James Knott wrote:
On 2021-08-06 7:37 a.m., Anton Aylward wrote:
While Doug may depreciate a store of that name I have no problems with discount refurbished electronics in general.
I have also bought some refurb computers over the years. Never had a problem with one, until the HP I bought several years ago for my firewall croaked a few months ago.
A HP laptop I bought (at expense at the time, but it paid its way) eventually gave up to a fuzzed out screen. I could probably have replaces the part from eBay for a few dollars if i knew more about which part I needed. That might even happen on day. But as it stands I can telnet/ssh into it. Right now it's under by desk running a local database service for my local web services.
The laptop I am using right now is a Compaq (thus HP second name), offered at 20% discount at a general supermarket, about 10 years ago. The discount was given as a voucher to buy things at the same place. I'm quite happy with it. But now all laptops I buy for me or other people are Lenovos, I'm very happy with them. Also my mobile phones (under the Motorola name). -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))
On 2021-08-06 11:00 a.m., Carlos E. R. wrote:
But now all laptops I buy for me or other people are Lenovos, I'm very happy with them. My notebook is a ThinkPad. This one is from Lenovo, but my first was from IBM. I got into the habit of running ThinkPads, after working at IBM, where most of my work was with them.
My most recent computer purchase, to replace that HP, was a Qotom mini PC, which I bought new. It has an i5 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD & 4 Gb Ethenet ports. I run pfsense on it.
Le 06/08/2021 à 17:00, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
But now all laptops I buy for me or other people are Lenovos,
the thinkpad brand (from Lenovo) is very good but my paswd problem was with old Fujitsu lifebook E8420 laptop *found* on a shelf in a newly purchased student flat. Three of them, box with nothing in them, but accept up to 8Gb ram, 1680x1050 display and one of them is now a personal server 2 meters from me right now :-) only one was passwd protected in flash rom (no simple way to reste it). I could install whatever I wanted in it, but not access the bios. pass 123456... jdd -- http://dodin.org
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