ok everyone bust out your longest-running-linux story--this might get hilarious =)
I'm still running ubuntu 6.06 (june 06) which just became unsupported a few months ago, at a colo i can't get to until xmas. it's been rock-solid for 5 years now. i just found out that a fileserver/firewall i set up for my dad's office in late 2001 is still working fine. i assumed it had crashed and burned long ago, but apparently not. it's running suse 7.3 and has not been updated since i installed it. by design, there are no external services running on it. i'm kind of surprised the hardware (rescued from being thrown away at the time--probably a 2-300mhz CPU) still lives & breathes, considering it's lived in a cabinet for the last 10 years. i am kind of afraid to touch it because it will probably just crumble. maybe i'll just go look at it hopefully/encouragingly next time i'm at his office. i somewhat recently got rid of a lot of sun & sgi hardware and even a sony NEWS machine that all had 10-20 (sony - at least 20) year old OS's and still ran, though they hadn't served heavy duty in the past 10+ years on my watch and were pretty much just toys (unlike the linux boxes above that have been constantly powered on and in use). _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
