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Posted Oct 10, 2025 12:42 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: 26.04 next by pizza
Parent article: Ubuntu 25.10 released

You have a server running since 1997? Impressive.

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Posted Oct 11, 2025 2:42 UTC (Sat) by lutchann (subscriber, #8872) [Link] (2 responses)

Some of us still have 32-bit x86 server instances from 20+ years ago that we struggle to keep going with manual builds and patches, but the appropriate emotion is shame, not pride.

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Posted Oct 11, 2025 10:14 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

What's the betting companies have S360 images still running on their z800s or z900s or whatever the hardware is?

If it ain't broke, DON'T FIX IT!

Cheers,
Wol

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Posted Oct 11, 2025 15:36 UTC (Sat) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

Shame and pride, perhaps.

For some, it may be a necessity. For us, no. Last year some of us discovered that much of our critical infrastructure (firewall, mail server, web server...) was running on recycled nodes from an HPC cluster dating to 2005, thanks to a brilliant but cantankerous sysadmin. These were absolutely cutting edge for the time, but we have the budget to upgrade and there was no excuse for using them in 2024. Of course, we found out only when there was a dire outage...

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Posted Oct 11, 2025 13:40 UTC (Sat) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> You have a server running since 1997? Impressive.

It's very much a Server-of-Theseus.