We use gitlab at UVM (run on-prem), and have found it to be pretty nice. Mike
From: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]> on behalf of John Gratton <[email protected]> Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]> Date: Friday, October 30, 2020 at 12:58 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Cheap Servers and Desktops and Github Alternatives Hi Joe. I haven't responded to a Vague list message in a very long time. Sounds like you hit the jackpot with that HP Elite. In regard to a GitHub alternative. I like BitBucket (https://bitbucket.org). I'm assuming that what turned you on to Linux, to begin with, is the fact that it's open-source....so maybe this feature is less of an issue. But for me, having free, unlimited, private repositories has always been important. Of course, you don't have to keep it private. But...it gives the option, which when I first used GitHub, it was not...without paying for it. And that was when docker was new. I didn't want to put my testing repositories out in public. So...BitBucket became the go-to. And it's still my primary for development. I'll use GitHub if I find something that I want to use. But I generally don't use it for my own code. Anyhow... Good luck! Take care, John Gratton On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 12:36 PM Joe Golden <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Anthony, how's that refurbed server working out? I just picked up one of these beauties: https://www.amazon.com/HP-EliteDesk-800-Computer-3-20Ghz/dp/B07B8VX5HZ. 16GB of RAM and 240 GB SSD for under $200: what more could you ask? Linux compliant hardware you say? You got it. Installed Debian without a hitch. Driving my three monitors flawlessly over a VGA port (good for the command line in all workspaces) and two display ports. My old machine got encrusted with dust I think ;-) New machine runs like a top and is zippy. Note that the above is refurbed and was mailed in a fedex express box. Not many moving parts, so I'm hoping it's not gonna crap out on me. Minimal investment of my time to get the box (small box, more like a big book) up and running productively. Any recommendations for long term server maintenance? I've got a decade(ish) old server that just keeps running. Dell PowerEdge T105 (which isn't very powerful or near the edge of anything anymore!). I'm gonna vacuum out the dust. What else do you do every decade? 5 years? This is a quintessentially Linux question! Also, not sure if I saw this on the list: what's the go to Github alternative? I don't wanna support MS, but Github is cool and just works. What are my righteous alternatives that won't upset my precious repositories? Thanx All and Keep on Truckin' On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:58:39AM -0400, John Bertelsen wrote: >Anthony, I have purchased the refurb hardware at tiger with mixed results. > >Although servers don't typically get physically abused during their working >lives the decommissioning process may leave things missing. Tiger, Staples, >newegg all use third party refurber's. It's always a gamble. > >John Bertelsen > >On Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 10:26 AM Anthony Carrico ><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> >wrote: > >> Someone told me he contacted another vender listing the same HPE server >> sku at the same price who said it doesn't have RAM or CPU, even though >> it is listed with 3104 / 8G. >> >> On 10/20/20 11:11 AM, Rene Churchill wrote: >> > FYI, https://labgopher.com/ is a very dangerous website. It scrapes >> > eBay for server auctions and classifies them by RAM and CPU. >> > >> > Great for buying old server boxes tho' >> >> Nice. It probably helps if you are familiar with the CPU generations. I >> don't follow them that closely. My desktop is a xeon E5-2650 v2; super >> stable (compared to the core i7 here). I could probably get another one >> of those on ebay, but it is needlessly power hungry idling all the time, >> and would cut the UPS time down quite a bit from the current solution. >> I think I've been through this logic loop before and just stuck with the >> old AMD. >> >> Also someone says keep an eye open for $350 price on Dell PowerEdge T40 >> tower. Downside with that it has only three drive bays. But it does look >> like a nice CPU. >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> Anthony Carrico >> -- Joe Golden /_\ www.Triangul.us<http://www.Triangul.us> /_\ Coding, Drupalism, Open Sourcery
