On Dec 14, 2013, at 6:23 AM, Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote:
> I have a four-year college degree in Electrical Engineering. I graduated > a long time ago, and my degree is probably not marketable for anything > other than engineering management at this point, but at least I have the > background. My "day job" is as a systems programmer for IBM mainframes. > Among other duties I install and maintain (apply PTFs to) the operating system > and other system software. And I have upgraded PC systems myself before, > including motherboard replacements. So no, I am not intimidated by the > prospect of building a system myself, if that proves to be the cheapest > or best way to go. Over the past decade or so, I've had amazingly good luck with plain old low-end Dell tower servers (small business area). They're very simple -- onboard VGA graphics, onboard audio, a few disk slots (3 or 4), no WiFi, no SCSI, no Windows, etc. And there are PCI slots to fix most of those features, if they're a problem. They for sure aren't gaming boxes or movie editors. But they've had Xeon processors, lots of RAM slots, excellent Linux compatibility, and massive reliability. The only failure I've had with them was a SATA drive -- Newegg and RAID 1 fixed that. And they're pretty cheap. A bit over your try for $500, though, but $600 or $700. Them Xeons ain't cheap. Nor are reliable electrolytic caps... They're good programming and T1 server boxes. -- Glenn English Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e096bf6c-a0dc-4e66-af51-417c6c6af...@slsware.com
