What do y'all's fleet of machines look like?

[izder456]

I guess here's my machines in active rotation:

• Gen 1 Intel Tower: runs openbsd -stable (main workhorse)
• Panasonic Let's Note CF-NX4 laptop: runs openbsd -current (main devbox and ports builder)
• x140e thinkpad netbook: runs ubuntu unity (until I can swap the wifi card, when I do that, i'll put ghostbsd on it)
• hp pavilion 17 inch: runs ghostbsd (only using this for now as I plan on moving my x140e to ghostbsd and decommissioning this)
• rpi 3: runs raspbian with raspap installed for wiimmfi (I need this to play my ds games online)
• rpi 2: runs netbsd, and serves as an irc and xmpp bouncer using bitlbee.
• pine64 a64+: runs freebsd, serves as a backup server (I have two 2tb sata drives connected via usb in a striping raid)
• rpi 400 with a busted keyboard: runs openbsd, serves as a headless port build tester for arm64.
• thinkpad x1 extreme gen 2: runs windows 10 iot ltsc, used for gaming.

all the sbcs are in their own subnet controlled by an old 100mbit cisco switch, for simplicity.

most of these machines I picked up secondhand for very cheap, or they were broken. I probably paid around 500 usd for all of em in total, and 550 usd considering repair costs.

what is your fleet of linux or bsd machines like? how do they work for you?

[bsd-keith]

Apart from those in regular & semi regular use, the rest are boxed up, as are some of my spare monitors, of various sizes from 8" to 24".....

[pl]

Originally Posted by izder456

• x140e thinkpad netbook: runs ubuntu unity (until I can swap the wifi card, when I do that, i'll put ghostbsd on it)

Beware, x140e has Wi-Fi card whitelist and won't start with "unauthorized" one. I happened to have one some time ago, one day I wanted to switch broadcom crap for an Intel card. I scrapped it the same day, something I usually don't do even with half-working oldies. It genuinely drove me mad.

[izder456]

Originally Posted by pl

Beware, x140e has Wi-Fi card whitelist and won't start with "unauthorized" one.

Yep. I used to have one of these in the past, gave it to a friend who was looking into starting a writing career. If you have the latest BIOS revision, it can optionally accept an iwm(4) supported card. this FRU in particular: 04X6010

You can grab one on eBay here.

Thanks for the heads up. I guess its worth having more record online about potential WiFi upgrades for this dinky little netbook.

[jmccue]

Here they are:

• AMD 333Mhz 512M mem Tower - NetBSD 9.3 i386. Rarely used, no room in my new apartment.
• Thinkpad R51e, 2G mem- OpenBSD 7.6 i386, NetBSD 9.x had issues with this
• Thinkpad T61 2G mem - NetBSD 10.1 i386, OpenBSD has issues with this
• Thinkpad T420 16G mem - OpenBSD 7.6 amd64, NetBSD has issues with this
• Thinkpad T430 16G mem - NetBSD 10.1 amd64, NetBSD and OpenBSD works great on this. Stayed with NetBSD
• Thinkpad W541 16G mem - Slackware Linux 15.0. Sadly *BSD makes the lower left corner get hot enough to fry an egg That is where the Nvidia GPU is placed.

The R51e, T61, T420 and T430 were rescued from Relatives and Friends when they went to new Apple Laptops.

[izder456]

Originally Posted by jmccue

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The R51e, T61, T420 and T430 were rescued from Relatives and Friends when they went to new Apple Laptops.

I need to rescue some more random old laptops. Did you buy 'em from them? My HP laptop was "rescued" with a 20 dollar bill and a conversation with a neighbor who moved to an iPad as her main "computer", thanks to a very notorious ad campaign at the time. xD

[frcc]

(2) Dell T3400 workstations
(1) Dell T5500 "
(1) Dell T3500 "
All running MX linux

(1) T450s Thinkpad, 7.6 Openbsd
I have had eye problems, just getting well
enough to try to use as main surfer. Having
issues with "console font size" and will post
questions as soon as i can post dmesg.boot etc.

Got em all for under $350 usd plus some parts.

[jmccue]

Originally Posted by izder456

Did you buy 'em from them?

No, they were going to be tossed. Thus the rescuing

[pl]

So I have
- ambassador - FreeBSD 14.2 amd64 - My daily driver that I carry whenever possible with me, hence it's hostname. Runs overclocked Ryzen 7 5700G @ 4.5GHz and has server chassis fan which is terribly loud but double this effective. It's an USFF
- toasterbawx - NetBSD 10.1 i386 - An ASUS EeePC 1000H netbook which does for server terminal and some basic tasks
- scoutellite - NetBSD 10.1 amd64 - A Hudson-based mITX SFF which is right now my only server. In 2 hours time it'll have 64 days of uptime

And plan to set up two HP SFFs as another servers - One will be new primary, second (hopefully) a repo for pkgsrc