Building a Linux box

Ice Tea · 24 Oct 2025 at 23:01

If you were building a Linux box, what parts would you buy and why?

New or second-hand.

Ice Tea · 25 Oct 2025 at 22:54

Do you trust these cheap boxes for security and having a flaky bios?

Ice Tea · 27 Oct 2025 at 12:45

Sorry for not articulating the topic very well.

I wanted to start a general discussion on the hardware people use for their builds, whatever the purpose they had in mind.

Most Linux sections of forums tend to be about software, so I thought it would be interesting to cover the hardware side of things.

Ice Tea · 27 Oct 2025 at 13:20

If i was to go for a mini-pc i would probably go for a Dell USFF, as long as the tiny laptop fan doesn't get annoying when they ramp up.

Ice Tea · 5 Dec 2025 at 10:16

I've not had a chance to watch it yet as its 53 minutes long.

Ice Tea · 11 Mar 2026 at 11:46

MSI PRO B850-P WiFi: A Special AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard For Linux / Open-Source Enthusiasts Review - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

The MSI PRO B850-P WIFI motherboard is a unique AMD Ryzen AM5 motherboard for Linux/open-source enthusiasts that is competitively priced at just $179 USD. It's interesting not because of the doings of MSI but rather 3mdeb with this being the desktop motherboard they are working on porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to for allowing an open-source firmware stack.

Aiming for a modern fully open source Motherboard with coreboot.