From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 11 01:47:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA16075 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 01:47:19 -0700 Received: from demerzel.sol.net (demerzel.sol.net [204.95.172.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA16064 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 01:47:17 -0700 Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by demerzel.sol.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA00624 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 03:47:39 -0500 Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id DAA24705; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 03:47:37 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199509110847.DAA24705@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Salute to a Box To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 3:47:35 CDT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1689 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It always saddens me to decommission a machine. mycogen.sol.net has been answering phone lines here at Solaria since December 26, 1993, and ran the very first version of FreeBSD. An older 386DX/16 with 4MB of RAM and dual MFM disks, it has admirably and reliably fulfilled its duties, answering the phones, and later handling incoming telnet sessions as well. It was upgraded to 1.1.GAMMA on April 18, 1994, and continued to run that version of FreeBSD until it was decommissioned this evening, September 10, 1995. During that time, it answered uncounted thousands of calls, and never once crashed in a state that required any intervention on my part... and the occasional crash and automatic reboot was a rarity. That first box got FreeBSD's "foot in the door" at Solaria, which had been a Sun shop up to that point. Now, I am mostly a FreeBSD shop, with one lone Sun still chugging away, and that is slated for decommissioning in the near future, to be replaced by a nice high end FreeBSD system. It is a sad day, retiring that last 1.* based system. Fortunately, the 2.* based system which will replace it will probably be at least as reliable. (The machine is being retired because it uses DIP memory, has no kernel sources around any more, and I needed to add more ports.) All I can say is, THANKS EVERYONE! It's a great operating system and the future is looking good! Everyone's efforts in producing this excellent operating system is extremely appreciated. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847