I agree with the others that Canada Computers is a good source... but for new gear. I normally buy used systems i find on kijiji from people where systems are dirt cheap and often from the government auctions. i have a headless proxmox server thst i bought for $500... dual xeon cpu, 12 core each with 96GB of ram. i build vm’s and containers and play with tons of linux distros. Linux has come a looooong way for hardware support (or perhaps the vendors have). Cheers
> On Dec 8, 2018, at 4:19 PM, Nathan Kirk <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have been building up Linux Workstations for a couple of decades, my first > goto is RB Computing at ShopRBC.com and secondarily CanadaComputer, both > local Ottawa stores. Always had good results from ShopRBC. > When I worked at Xandros Corp we sourced all of our hardware for our Linux > needs from ShopRBC. > I continue to find better results with AMD graphics cards over more > problematic and less Linux friendly NVidia. > > YMMV of course. > > Cheers. > Nathan > > > > > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Charles Nadeau <[email protected]> > Date: 2018-12-04 2:16 AM (GMT-05:00) > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: Re: [linux] Hardware sources? > > I had good experiences at CanadaComputers too. I bought 2 servers there en > 2010 and 2011 and they are still working 24/7 since I purchased them. > > Charles > >> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 6:49 PM J C Nash <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes, the number of stores is getting fewer, and the remaining vendors are >> ones >> I don't consider useful ("Worst" Buy -- who I discovered do not honour >> warranties, >> Walmart, etc.) However, I have dealt with CanadaComputers and have bought 3 >> laptops >> (all Asus, which have been Debian/Ubuntu/Mint friendly) as well as a tower. >> The tower, >> however, was 2012 and still going strong. They also set it up "no-OS" so I >> could >> avoid the WinTax. Unfortunately, Asus appears to ignore Linux these days. >> >> Perhaps other members will contribute some places and some ideas about >> hardware to >> avoid. >> >> JN >> >> On 2018-12-03 11:58 a.m., Barry McLarnon wrote: >> > My Linux desktop system is getting rather long in the tooth and has some >> > stability issues, so I'm looking to replace >> > it. It seems that the number of local sources for barebones PCs has >> > dwindled almost to nothing since the last time I >> > bought any hardware, and I'm looking for recommendations. >> > >> > Also, is there any particular hardware, especially graphics, that I should >> > avoid due to iffy Linux support? I've used >> > openSUSE for many years and will probably give their Tumbleweed rolling >> > release a whirl, but apparently it can be a real >> > hassle if you don't have well-supported hardware. I don't need state of >> > the art, just a stable platform for general >> > desktop use and some light-duty server stuff (web, mail, and some in-house >> > streaming). >> > >> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have on what to get and >> > where to get it... >> > >> > Barry >> > >> >> To unsubscribe send a blank message to [email protected] >> To get help send a blank message to [email protected] >> To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org >> > > > -- > Charles Nadeau Ph.D. > http://charlesnadeau.blogspot.com/
