[GRLUG] A Moment of Silence

[Mike Williams]

Hmmm, I go through systems fairly slowly, so almost all of them have a 
bit of history. Furthest back, I suppose like most users I had an 
irrational affection for my Amiga 2000. More recently, I guess it was a 
motherboard. I had a house server for many years that was a 
decommissioned desktop, but it just kept going. I can't even guess when 
I originally got the board, but the Asus P2B-L with a Pentium II 400 or 
so did house server duties for years beyond its expected lifetime. It 
was only about 3 years ago that I finally turned it off, but it's still 
there and would probably run fine if I were to power it back up again. 
Provided I could remember the commands to boot it since I never got the 
initrd to properly handle all the RAID and LVM that it did. Similar 
levels of uptime to what Ben described, but quite a bit more maintenance 
because it ran Gentoo.

On 09/07/2011 03:10 PM, Ben Rousch wrote:
> I would like to ask for a moment of silence. I just decommissioned my
> company's main Samba virtual machine which had been running Ubuntu
> 6.06 LTS since 2006. There were times in between power outages when it
> had more than a year of up-time. I think I rebooted it only twice in 5
> years due to system instability. The VM host server is getting a fresh
> new VMWare ESXi 5 install, and the Samba VM will be replaced by Debian
> 6.
>
> What systems do you have fond memories of?
>


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