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Intel NUC dev machine for home

Here is my newest Linux dev machine I put together recently.

It is an Intel NUC BXNUC10I7FNK1, 2 x Samsung 32GB DDR4 2666MHz  and a fast Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB NVMe M.2 Internal SSD. 


I do not need a monitor or a keyboard, since this machine will run headless and I will only SSH into it from my Mac.


Took very little time to put it together. Just opened the NUC case, installed the SSD and the memory sticks.


NUC pcb



I installed Ubuntu server on it. Downloaded the image from ubuntu.com, then created a boot image on a memory stick and used it to install the OS.


This new machine is powerful enough to run few VMs, many Docker containers and Kubernetes. And all was about $900 which is quite affordable.


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