The Surgery

Alas, poor Derek, I knew him well.

My first-ever, now ailing Linux server was retired today. The low-end Pentium with 40MB of RAM had past its Use-By date some time ago, and with the bedding-down of Derek’s replacement, the imaginatively titled “Derek2″, it was time to say goodbye.

Derek was built in January 2002 (according to my “anally retentive notebook” as it’s fondly known by myself and Graeme) and served as an ADSL gateway, DHCP server, time server and NAT machine for many years. It even used to run Apache to test web pages, and for the last 12 months struggled under the weight of THIS VERY BLOG running WordPress and MySQL.

When it was switched off today, Derek was running the latest patched-up version of Red Hat Linux version 7.2 (codenamed, appropriately, “Enigma”) which had been unsupported for some years. Red Hat eventually merged with the Fedora project back in 2003.

I snapped some last-minute photos before issuing Derek’s final shutdown -h now.

Farewell old friend!

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