{"id":2252,"date":"2018-11-01T20:31:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T20:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2018-11-02T09:51:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T09:51:44","slug":"system76-announces-american-made-desktop-pc-with-open-source-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2018\/11\/01\/system76-announces-american-made-desktop-pc-with-open-source-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"System76 Announces American-Made Desktop PC with Open-Source Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early in 2017\u2014nearly two years ago\u2014System76 invited me, and a handful of others, out to its Denver headquarters for a sneak peek at something new they&#8217;d been working on.<\/p>\n<p>We were ushered into a windowless, underground meeting room. Our phones and cameras confiscated. Seriously. Every word of that is true. We were sworn to total and complete secrecy. Assumedly under penalty of extreme death&#8230;though that part was, technically, never stated.<\/p>\n<p>Once the head honcho of System76, Carl Richell, was satisfied that the room was secure and free from bugs, the presentation began.<\/p>\n<p>System76 told us the company was building its own desktop computers. Ones that it designed themselves. From-scratch cases. With wood. And inlaid metal. What&#8217;s more, these designs would be open. All built right there in Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>We were intrigued.<\/p>\n<p>Then they showed them to us, and we darn near lost our minds. They were gorgeous. We all wanted them.<\/p>\n<p>But they were not ready yet. This was early on in the design and engineering, and they were looking for feedback\u2014to make sure System76 was on the right track.<\/p>\n<p>They were.<\/p>\n<p>Flash-forward to today (November 1, 2018), and these Linux-powered, made in America desktop machines are finally being unveiled to the world as the Thelio line (which they&#8217;ve been teasing for several weeks with a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/thel.io\/\"><u>sci-fi themed stories<\/u><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The Thelio comes in three sizes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thelio (aka &#8220;small&#8221;) \u2014 max 32GB RAM, 24TB storage.<\/li>\n<li>Thelio Major (aka &#8220;medium&#8221;) \u2014 max 128GB RAM, 46TB storage.<\/li>\n<li>Thelio Massive (aka &#8220;large&#8221;) \u2014 max 768GB RAM, 86TB storage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linuxjournal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/max_650x650\/public\/u%5Buid%5D\/thelio-combined-1.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;&quot;\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All three sport the same basic look: part black metal, part wood (with either maple or walnut options) with rounded side edges. The cases open with a single slide up of the outer housing, with easy swapping of components. Lots of nice little touches, like a spot for in-case storage of screws that can be used in securing drives.<\/p>\n<p>In an awesomely nerdy touch, the rear exhaust grill shows the alignment of planets in the solar system&#8230;at UNIX Epoch time. Also known as January 1, 1970. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unix_time\"><u>A Thursday<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linuxjournal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/max_650x650\/public\/u%5Buid%5D\/thelio-exterior-5.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;&quot;\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They come in both Intel and AMD CPU varieties. So you get to pick between an Intel chip (ranging from i5 to i9 to Xeon) or an AMD chip (Ryzen 5 or 7 or Threadripper) with a bunch of GPU options available, including an AMD RX Vega 11, RX 580, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080, Titan V3 and a quite few others (both beefier and less so).<\/p>\n<p>Temperature control is assisted by a custom daughterboard that controls airflow (along with power and LED), dubbed &#8220;Thelio Io&#8221;. This daughterboard has open firmware and is certified by the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA).<\/p>\n<p>That last little bit is what I find most interesting about this new endeavor from System76. The more open a design is, the better for all. Makes maintenance and customization easier and helps others to learn from the designs for their own projects.<\/p>\n<p>Thelio hardware is not completely open. But the company says that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s working toward. As System76 puts it, the company is &#8220;chipping away at the proprietary bits until it&#8217;s 100% open source.&#8221; This is a big move in a wonderfully open direction.<\/p>\n<p>Also&#8230;wood. The case is partially made out of wood. A computer. Made with wood.<\/p>\n<p>A wooden computer.<\/p>\n<p>There need to be more things like that in this world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linuxjournal.com\/content\/system76-announces-american-made-desktop-pc-open-source-parts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in 2017\u2014nearly two years ago\u2014System76 invited me, and a handful of others, out to its Denver headquarters for a sneak peek at something new they&#8217;d been working on. We were ushered into a windowless, underground meeting room. Our phones and cameras confiscated. Seriously. Every word of that is true. 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