Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions on where to acquire
hardware. Since I don't need portability and am leery of buying used
gear, I got quotes on a custom OS-less desktop system from Canada
Computers and RB Computing. In the end, I opted to go with RB for a
number of reasons, not the least of which is that I've dealt with them
before - that's where I bought my current system than I want to
mothball, nine years ago this month. For some reason I had the
impression that RB had disappeared, but it turns out that they're still
very much alive and kicking. I splurged a bit on a 1TB SDD, but the
system is otherwise pretty vanilla (Asus ATX mobo w/i5-8600 cpu & 8GB
DDR4 ram, and an HDD for mirroring). When I get it this coming week,
I'll see how openSUSE Tumbleweed rolls along on it.
Barry
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Barry McLarnon Ottawa, ON
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