Slashdot Mirror
Solaris Machine Shut Down After 3737 Days of Uptime
An anonymous reader writes "After running uninterrupted for 3737 days, this humble Sun 280R server running Solaris 9 was shut down. At the time of making the video it was idle, the last service it had was removed sometime last year. A tribute video was made with some feelings about Sun, Solaris, the walk to the data center and freeing a machine from internet-slavery."
I don't think his comment suggested anything else. You should probably parse it like this:
(Oracle really ground my gears when they stopped supporting OpenSolaris) && (OpenIndiana is going nowhere fast)
Oracle support only applies to the Left Side of the statement. The point of the statement was to suggest that with support gone, and the only alternative to the supported version going nowhere, the Solaris world is completely Shit Out of Luck.
You can get patches, even kernel patches without having to restart the system. That was one of it's selling points back in the day, some systems even allowed you to hot-swap or hot-upgrade CPU's and memory.
Custom electronics and digital signage for your business: www.evcircuits.com
No, it was idle "only" since day 3509 (served as a hot backup if we had to restore the service from the new machines).
The summary is misleading. It was acting as a backup server for it's own replacement.
/usr/xpg4/something is not /bin/sh, the latter being what POSIX requires.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.