Looking for advice

[Stuart Hirsch]

I have 2. They’re great, one for general purposes, development and presentations or let my wife use it for her booth to display jewelry photos and an on line ordering kiosk. I plan to dedicate  the other one to running trains.
Stuart

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> On Mar 10, 2019, at 5:54 PM, Wes Westhaver <wes at westhaver.com> wrote:
> 
> I used the Pi-TopCEED mostly when I had a need to monitor some sort of long
> running process. Now that I have a multi-monitor system set up, I probably
> won't need the Pi-TopCEED as much. It is a really nice little computer
> though. I have it jacked into my ethernet network and use RealVNC to access
> it. That way I don't need to have a keyboard or mouse attached to it. It
> doesn't take up much desk space at all so it makes a great system for
> monitoring other systems or watching videos etc.
> 
> -Wes
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ubuntu-us-md [mailto:ubuntu-us-md-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf
> Of Stuart Hirsch
> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2019 5:15 PM
> To: Ubuntu Maryland Loco Team
> Subject: Re: Looking for advice
> 
> I see you also have a pi top next to your system. How do you use it?
> Stuart
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Mar 5, 2019, at 2:39 PM, Wes Westhaver <wes at westhaver.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks to all who offered advice on my quest for a multi-monitor Ubuntu
>> workstation.
>> 
>> I took a little gamble and bought a used Dell Optiplex 7010 and two 22"
> Dell
>> monitors. The Optiplex has a built-in video card that has two DisplayPort
>> ports and one VGA port. I figured that buying a very common Dell PC would
>> mean that it's video card would probably be supported by Ubuntu, and if
> not
>> I could buy an appropriate video card.
>> 
>> Once I had the monitors connected with the DisplayPort cables and Ubuntu
>> loaded, I was pleasantly surprised that both monitors came to life. No
> muss,
>> no fuss! Then I set about finding Linux equivalents for all of my Windows
>> software. It took a while but I'm very happy to say I now have a nicely
>> equipped Ubuntu workstation. Bye bye Windows.
>> 
>> After a while I got to wondering if the unused VGA port might support a
>> third monitor. So I hooked up one of my old 17" Dell monitors and to my
>> delight it came to life too! So now I have a ton of screen real estate to
>> work with.
>> 
>> Here's a shot of my system as it stands right now: 
>> 
>> http://hawking.stealing-fire.com/5FBA1BFE-1109-4E46-B6DB-056595FFC889.JPG
>> 
>> It turns out that multi-monitor support was a not an issue at all with
>> Ubuntu.
>> 
>> Thanks again,
>> -Wes
>> 
>> 
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