Subj : Re: Helen OS
To : poindexter FORTRAN
From : paulie420
Date : Mon Oct 12 2020 11:23 am
pF> For around the price of a rPi, I bought a used thinkpad with a broken
pF> keyboard, maxxed the RAM out and loaded Proxmox on it. I'm running
pF> PiHole on it, as well as several other OSes. It sits folded up under
pF> my router, making a compact little homelab.
You know, I do own one 27" power iMac - and it does all the 'pretty' things I
like to do around the house; but it doesn't really RUN any of my
tasks/servers/etc... it just comsumes and displays data in a great looking
package.
I actually also bought several ThinkPad T430s machines, specced them out like
you described... and I even upgrade the monitors to a 1920x1080 full ips
display - I have to order this connector from china, but I haven't had any
issues with them; some others have had the display do funny stuff but... I've
been lucky. For ME, the i7-3520 processors my ThinkPads have handles most any
Linux stuff I need them to do. I *love* the ThinkPad platform... and probably
will buy a current model at some point... a T480 or something like that.
pF> I hear there's a rPi version of ESXi, with enough memory it might
pF> make more sense to run bare metal virtualization - then you could run
pF> whatever OS you want?
I'm not familiar with ESXi or proxmox; although I have heard of proxmox
before, I don't exactly know what tasks it performs of why I might need it.
:P Lol.
I'll research both of those... thanks for your reply.
