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 <nkirk [ at ] rogers [ dot ] com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> YMMV of course.
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> Cheers.
> Nathan
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> From: Charles Nadeau <charles [ dot ] nadeau [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com>
> Date: 2018-12-04 2:16 AM (GMT-05:00)
> To: profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com
> Cc: bm [ at ] topazdesigns [ dot ] com, linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org
> Subject: Re: [linux] Hardware sources?
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> 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.
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> Charles
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>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 6:49 PM J C Nash <profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> 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
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>> 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
>> >
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