Elvis has left the building!
The laptop: ancient, slow, and yet it keeps doing its job.
Machine: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDT
System: Debian Linux 3.1
Kernel: 2.4.18-bf2.4
CPU: Pentium I, 100MHz
Memory: 40MiB
Disks: 2GiB
The King never dies
The more linux-aware will already have noticed: 2.4.18-bf2.4. That's ancient! Why do you even still use it? It's old! Its hardware support sucks! It's unsafe! Yes, all correct. And the answer is: because I haven't rebooted it ever since the kernel was released.
Yes, this old piece of Toshiba trash was last rebooted on June 9th, 2003, at 11:48 CEST. It started as a joke - the laptop was a transition-toy, something to suit the need until I got the cash to buy a decent server with some more juice. After all, if you keep a laptop running nonstop, it'll fry its internals after a few months, right?
Not right. We're three years later now, it's survived one operating system upgrade (Woody to Sarge), 5 moving parties to a new place and a couple of power outages (the longest one lasting eight hours!) without even complaining. Gotta love the builtin battery "UPS" it carries along...
It's been running for three years. Going for five now - and who knows after that? After all, the King never dies.