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Solaris Machine Shut Down After 3737 Days of Uptime

Posted by timothy on from the those-are-some-crazy-socks dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Oracle sucks. by RocketRabbit · · Score: -1, Redundant

    VMS isn't a Unix, and I don't believe you can get ahold of VMS any more. The IBM mainframes are too expensive and not open source, so there's no point in comparing them to Solaris.

    What's your point exactly? My point is that Solaris is useful, even in its somewhat dodgy state (thanks Oracle for the paid update program you fucks).

  2. Re:Uptime fetish by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Yeah, first of all, it's OK to have more than one sentence on a line break.

    Second of all, only an idiot of a sysadmin fetishizes uptime. Who the hell cares? Why the F does anyone have a single point of failure? Patch and reboot your damn boxes!

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