>>>>> "John" == <j...@trillian.mit.edu> writes:
John> Hi, folks. My home linux server has been acting up, and
John> after 14 years, it may not be long for this world. So I
John> thought I'd ask y'all what you might suggest as a
John> replacement.
John> I got the current one from the PCs For Everyone people, who
John> aren't in business any more. Their "farewell" web site
John> suggests people go to thinkmake.com. But you may think
John> otherwise. Buying locally has its benefits, though I don't
John> think I ever actually needed them for anything after taking
John> the old one home.
I bought my last computer at Free Geek. <https://www.freegeek.org/> I
ran into them on Ebay, but it's probably better to use them directly. I
was having terrible trouble getting docks to work with my Dell XPS13, so
I decided it would be cheaper to buy a cheap linux computer that already
had the right ports.
They're in Portland, but they seem to ship pretty efficiently. Linux
Mint is what they installed, and I've changed a couple of options (I
have a USB drive plugged in for backup, and they left USB as the first
boot option; and I found it easier to disable Apparmor than to figure
out how to tell it what I wanted to do), but it's definitely easier than
figuring out the options for installing Linux on a UEFI boot.
There may be better or more local options, but this is what I found.
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can do about it.
Barney Frank, about the Electoral College, quoted in the New York
Times, November 11, 2016
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