On 9/8/21 8:13 am, terryc wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 18:36:19 +0800
> Brad Campbell via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
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>> I honestly can't see who in their right mind would use a base system
>> of that age,
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> My 2c, hardware?
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> If it has lasted that long, then it must be reliable and its free, why
> not.
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> anyway, back to regular discussions.
>

I can understand hardware (one of my Colo boxes is a 2008 Mac Mini), but this discussion is talking about a new "bare metal hypervisor" based on a Debian Wheezy installation.
Keeping legacy systems running? sure, but a new install?? I can't think of any system with hardware virtualisation that ran Wheezy and won't run Beowulf.

Brad