[johnnym]

You're still using your PPro machine, right? What bootloader do you use for it now? LILO or GRUB?

Yes, my PPro machine is my combination firewall (using IPTables) and it runs my website, it boots from LILO using a config file I wrote myself.

That machine never fails to amaze me, it's been up almost full time since January 1997, it only goes offline when I take it apart and blow the dust out with my compressor, or if I need to replace the power supply, which I've had to do numerous times.

Nice! Love that durability. My PPro systems will hopefully also last that long!

Hey, if you ever feel the need to replace that system (e.g. due to missing spare parts), I can recommend you a great little machine: I'm unsure if Fujitsu computers are a thing in the US, but I recently upgraded my Esprimo E420 with a D3221-A12 systemboard (also from Fujitsu and it has to be this exact board to stay silent during operation), 32 GiB of unbuffered RAM and a Xeon E3 1271v3 (4 cores, 8 threads, no graphics).

That resulting system is quite capable and my DL380 G7 with 2 x 12 thread 6 core Xeon X5690s is not even twice as fast as this one for Linux kernel compilation and gets quite loud when loaded. The Esprimo E420 is very silent instead - unless you forget to connect the CPU fan for a while and after not believing how quiet that machine is, hastely open the case and reconnect it, then it's loud for a short amount of time and it smells a little . Highlight: It idles at 6 W (!) only (w/2 SSDs installed).

But the best thing for me is, that systemboard allows for console via the serial port, so no glass console needed after configuring the serial console. I believe it also supports IPMI or some Intel special sh*t for remote control but I didn't test this yet. I control it by applying power via a controllable outlet and powering it down from the OS.