Local Linux builders?

[Richard Perry]

Anyone know if there's a local company that builds Linux systems? My wife's desktop is on the way out, and I think I've finally gotten her convinced to switch. I can do it myself, but am really busy this month, so might prefer a prebuilt, if there's someone in town who does that sort of thing.

Regards,
Richard Perry
(sent from my phone)

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[Ryan]

Cybertron is the only commercial shop I can think of, they sell alot of linux servers.. they should be able to do yah a desktop pretty easy.

-Ryan

[Dominic Canare]

Echo the Cybertron response. Great group of guys there, they know their stuff, and they're prices are very reasonable.


Dominic Canare
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[Dale Beams]

I'm going to echo this as well. While building a system is interesting
I've found that system builders who do mass production usually get it
right and can do it more efficiently at a cheaper price. Then there is
always the issue of support which often you won't get from a one/two man
shop.

It appears they sell desktop PC configurations without an OS. If you
would like to make an easy transition, try YLMF Linux. Looks like
windows, operates like linux. Ubuntu based and great transitional linux
system.

On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 13:03 -0700, Dominic Canare wrote:
> Echo the Cybertron response. Great group of guys there, they know
> their stuff, and they're prices are very reasonable.
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> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:32, Ryan <dread...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cybertron is the only commercial shop I can think of, they
> sell alot of linux servers.. they should be able to do yah a
> desktop pretty easy.
>
>
> -Ryan
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> On Jun 24, 2011, at 6:02 AM, Richard Perry wrote:
>
> > Anyone know if there's a local company that builds Linux
> > systems? My wife's desktop is on the way out, and I think
> > I've finally gotten her convinced to switch. I can do it
> > myself, but am really busy this month, so might prefer a
> > prebuilt, if there's someone in town who does that sort of
> > thing.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Richard Perry
> > (sent from my phone)
> >

> > On Jun 24, 2011 9:31 AM, <aclug-discussion

[Steven Saner]

On Jun 24, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Dale Beams wrote:

> I'm going to echo this as well. While building a system is
> interesting
> I've found that system builders who do mass production usually get it
> right and can do it more efficiently at a cheaper price. Then there
> is
> always the issue of support which often you won't get from a one/two
> man
> shop.
>
> It appears they sell desktop PC configurations without an OS. If you
> would like to make an easy transition, try YLMF Linux. Looks like
> windows, operates like linux. Ubuntu based and great transitional
> linux
> system.

Anybody know if they sell a good laptop for Linux? Anybody have any
suggestions for a Linux laptop (doesn't need to be preloaded as I
would probably want to put my favorite distribution on anyway).

Steve

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[Robert]

For what it's worth:
I have found the Toshiba Satellites quite compatible with Linux Distro's
except Ubuntu (wireless issues), from inexpensive to top of the line
Toshiba units worked very well with both Fedora based and SUSE based OSs.

Robert

[Mike Burks]

 

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/09/7-providers-of-pre-installed-linux.html    Might be useful. Zareason stands out.

 

If you are friends with any local vendors ask if you can put a live version of your intended distro in their demonstrator and see if all of the functions work. You would be surprised with what different distros do and don’t do in the same hardware. See for example last post at

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=58616&start=40  

 

or this exchange:

 

Anonymous said...

Natty was working fine for about a week and then I decided to see if I could make the fonts in Firefox stay large enough to read. I was getting tired of using Ctrl+Scroll Wheel on every page. Long story short:I broke my desktop. Had nothing but wall to wall Ubuntu brown. Reboot did not help.Just between you and me, I think it is piss poor when you can break your OS without ever using Admin privileges. Anyway, Ctl+Alt+F1 user, password, sudo unity --reset, sudo service gdm restart restored the desktop. The question is: HOW DO I KEEP THIS FROM HAPPENING AGAIN? (Please suppress the urge to say "don't play with it".)
Natty 32 bit. Nvidia 8600GT video card. 24 inch LED monitor.

June 19, 2011 8:49 PM

Sikander Hayat Khan said...

@Anonymous:

Unity and compiz don't fit together, yet. Learn to survive with this release and wait for Ubuntu 11.10 which would be far more stable, I believe. You can do 'unity --reset' whenever you manage to break it again.

Yeh the answer was the same you expected I know i.e, 'don't play with it'. But, we don't have many choices yet.

June 19, 2011 9:44 PM

 

How does this crap get released?

Mike Burks

 

 

 

From: Richard Perry

Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 11:02 AM

To: aclug-di...@googlegroups.com

Subject: [aclug-L] Local Linux builders?

 

Anyone know if there's a local company that builds Linux systems? My wife's desktop is on the way out, and I think I've finally gotten her convinced to switch. I can do it myself, but am really busy this month, so might prefer a prebuilt, if there's someone in town who does that sort of thing.

Regards,
Richard Perry
(sent from my phone)

[Olwe Bottorff]

I've been very happy with my used Thinkpads. I just got a used T400 off Ebay for $315. incl shipping. Put an extra 2gb RAM and Ubuntu 11.04-64 on it and it's just fine. I really like the Thinkpad docking station, too. For a while I was running two 22" LED monitors off the dockstation DVI and VGA ports. The only glitches I can think of have been with hibernate and switching back and forth from laptop screen to desk monitors, but I'm not sure these are necessarily Thinkpad issues. Many other Thinkpads before this one have worked fine too.

In general, the only issue I'd warn a persnickety Windows user about Linux is that Flash is not always 100% (at least in Chromium). Otherwise, after doing all the post-install tweaks, I can't think of anything a "civilian" would find wrong.  

L. Bottorff

Grand Marais, MN

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Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [aclug-L] Local Linux builders?

[Dominic Canare]

YLMF looks great! I've been using XPGnome to convert people who were previously using illegal copies of Windows, with a good adoption rate. YLMF looks even sharper - I may start using it instead. Thanks for sharing!

Dominic Canare
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[Dominic Canare]

I've used Fedora on Ubuntu on my Satellite tablet. Wireless works out-of-the-box, even when I bought it in 2006. I'm still using it today as well as a Sony Vaio with Ubuntu, and have had no problems so far.


Dominic Canare
└ d...@domstyle.net

[David Carmichael]

If somebody want to make an offer on a Acer laptop so you could try
loading linux check out the add I just posted in the "Yahoo:
Wichita_Classifieds".

[John Alexander]

I know it isn't exactly "local Linux builders", but this article showed up in my inbox today. It may hold some valuable information for those of us ready to take the next leap.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/buying-linux-machine-where-shop?source=NWWNLE_nlt_linux_2011-06-29

ja

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[Michael Holmes]

Excellent; thanks

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