Longest-running Debian installation?

Longest-running Debian installation?

Posted Mar 16, 2007 18:12 UTC (Fri) by stevem (subscriber, #1512)
In reply to: The new Debian etch release schedule by drag
Parent article: The new Debian etch release schedule

My first Debian installation from October 1996 is still going. It has been migrated across to new disks and new hardware multiple times in the interim, and (obviously) upgraded quite a few times since.

It was my only machine at the time, a 486 DX4/120 IIRC. It's now running on a dual-core AMD64 and is the main server at home, used for NFS space, music and (of course) the local Debian mirror. It's also the machine where most debian-cd development work happens.

The only thing that may kill it now is the fact that I'd like to move over from i386 to amd64. Once I do the etch upgrade, I'll look into that; I hope I can find a way to keep it going despite an architecture change... :-)

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