My New Toy

[Tech9]

Did you turn that thing on? I had a power surge few minutes ago 1000km South of you.

 

[BreakingDad]

I recommend Prime95 for the cold winter days.

Briefly, but i needed a vga cable from work, cba taking the hd out to install off another pc.

Thinking of making it a NAS now, those 8 bays need filling up.

Where are you, south of France?

 

[Tech9]

Where are you, south of France?

Yes, Spain. Don't push that button again.

 

[BreakingDad]

Yes, Spain. Don't push that button again.

You feel that? just pressed it, it's off again now, until next time I notice you misbehaving.

 

[sfx2000]

Super micro x8dtl-IF, 2 x Xeon 2.4ghz E6520, dual psu, 24GB mem, 8 HDD Drive Bays, no drives (yet), 4 PCI E, 2 PCI

nice toy - bit power hungry to run 24/7 perhaps, but in the winter, could be a useful space heater

Ubuntu Server - play with Docker, KVM, or even Proxmox - 24GB of RAM is plenty to play with.

 

[Tech Junky]

Also downloaded kubuntu.

You don't need to do that. You can swap the skin / desktop with packages rather than downloading the complete ISO. I just switched from the default gdm3 to sddm because I don't use it as a desktop and don't need all of the random packages installed for "users". I would install the server package instead of desktop but, occasionally need the desktop for some things. Any DEB based version though is easy to work with. A useful tool for monitoring it though is webmin.