[Discuss] rsync issue

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "John" ==   <jc at 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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