Shutdown after 6 years 2 months 25 days: 2.0.36 declared stable!

Shutdown after 6 years 2 months 25 days: 2.0.36 declared stable!

[Thomas Voegtle]

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Hi,

Yesterday evening me an my friend had to shut down our most beloved 
server. It had run for 6 years, 2 months and 25 days non stop. Nothing 
could harm this little mailserver: y2k, electricity problems in the house 
and no hacker found it.

We had to shut it down because of renovation of the room.

486 DX 33Mhz
8   MB RAM 
32  MB SWAP
340 MB Connor Harddisk

Kernel 2.0.36
SuSE 5.3

4 uptime wrap arounds. 

Thanks a lot for this rock solid piece of software!


      Thomas and Bastian

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Re: Shutdown after 6 years 2 months 25 days: 2.0.36 declared stable!

[Fao, Sean]

Thomas Voegtle wrote:

>486 DX 33Mhz
>

I don't know if you can still find them, but the Evergreen upgrade kits 
worked pretty well on my old 486's 
(http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2640).  It brought the processor up 
to 133 MHz.  Not too shabby for an old PC that would be collecting dust 
in most peoples houses.  I now use it only as a firewall/router for my 
home network; but I'll take whatever speed increases I can get since I 
commonly compile updates directly on that system.  I needed iptables, so 
I'm running a 2.4.2? kernel.  The only time this system goes down is 
when the power goes out (no UPS yet).  I think the longest I've made it 
is about two months.  I'm quite certain I could have uptimes as high as 
a year or more if I had a battery.

Talk to you later,

-- 
Sean E. Fao