New PeeCee
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I finally  had to built  a new desktop computer.  As I wrote  here some
time ago  my wife's computer  (the GPD Pocket  2) have stopped  to work
with the external display. It has  been a problem because its 7" screen
is no good for desktop use. I have tried several solutions but so far I
have not found anything usable.

So my wife  used the PowerBook G4  for some time. There  were no issues
with  the old  laptop, everything  (well, just  the TenFourFox  and the
LibreOffice)  worked as  expected. But  I thought  that the  PB is  too
precious to be used so often under heavy load.

So  I  have  tried  to  revive  my  old  Sun  Ultra  20  (it's  just  a
Athlon64-base computer with the  customised Tyan Tomcat K8E mainboard).
I have got a new (non-Sun)  Tomcat mainboard and have installed it. The
first tests  revealed that one  of RAM  moduli is faulty.  Because they
have to be installed in pairs I have  had to remove half of RAM. Then I
(with some difficulties  as the device has no working  CD and it cannot
boot from  USB drives) have  upgraded the  ubuntu from 12.04  to 14.04.
Then I have had to stop as  after one night of installation and another
RAM modulus died. 

In this  moment I gave it  up. I decided  to replace the Tomcat  with a
modern mainboard for the Ryzen CPU.  I have used the same components as
mentioned here (in Czech) [1]. I  tried to install the mainboard inside
the Ultra 20  case. It didn't worked (both  front panel incompatibility
and power supply incompatibility was present here) so I have decided to
replace  the  case  and the  power  supply,  too.  So  I have  built  a
completely  new  low-end PC  (I  have  had a  SSD  drive  at home  -  I
originally planned to use it for Void Linux experiments but).

That is, we have two modern desktops  at home now. I have the BlackBird
(an OpenPOWER workstation)  and my wife has an x86_64  desktop. But the
BlackBird is cooler and more quiet, too. :-)

I wasn't sure about  the hostname for the new PC.  Finally I decided on
the "hryzec"  (Arvicola) as  it looks  to me  as a  bit similar  to the
"Ryzen".

P.S. I will try  to revive the poor Sun Ultra 20,  anyway. I should have
two 256MB  RAM sticks somewhere and  there is still a  chance that only
two of my four 1GB moduli are bad... If it will work then it would be a
great machine so support of retro-computing activities (it has a lot of
PCI slots for old cards and a serial port, too).

P.P.S. The Ubuntu 20.04 DOES NOT include the J-Pilot nor the pilot-link
tools! Grrrr....


References:

[1] http://technomorous.eu/post/170488206120