Well, there’s my home server, which has been running continuously for 13-15 years except for the times I’ve rebooted it to load kernel updates. So, no, not hard-pressed at all! OpenBSD and Linux are both fine on commodity hardware, and I’m really kind of a CLI guy anyway.
I actually have a spare server sitting on top of the old one, that I built a while back, when the RAIDs on the old system reached the point where one more failure will kill them. Somehow I still haven’t retired the old one, though… laziness and inertia.
Check the link I provided. If they are US students, they are probably in the top 1% worldwide.
I got it from the trash seven or eight years ago & reloaded the OS at that time, so I haven’t been running it incredibly long.
It’s a fascinating design, isn’t it? The base unit is quite a bit overwrought, but it makes a decent media player. I would never have imagined you could get decent sound from those speakers in a million years, but even people with better hearing than me say it sounds good.
