The CS server has been a part of the campus network for many years now. The first CS is believed to have been a 486dx with 16MB RAM that was housed in the CS computer lab. The lab was upgraded and one of the old machines was taken to be used as a new CS server. It was setup by Ray DeJean and Jason Holland over the Fall 1997/Spring 1998 semester break.
CS was comprised of an Intel Pentium 166MHZ, 64MB RAM and 2.5 gigs of disk space. It was moved from the computer lab to a more secure location inside the campus server room. It ran the latest version of Redhat Linux 5.0 with the 2.0.33 version of the Linux kernel. It was setup by the ACM to provide students with email and web space back in the dark ages of the VAX/VMS.
The server saw several upgrades and quite a few disk failures. In 2003, it was decided that the system was in a bad state from all the wear and tear it received over the 6 years of operation. So the system was rebuilt with the FreeBSD OS and placed in a new case. That served us well but the Pentium III 400MHZ was showing its age.
So in 2004, the ACM wrote a Tech Fee grant to buy a new server. Then in the summer of 2005 the ACM received its new server. From Rags to Riches, before we had used old machines from the computer science department, now we had a brand new server. And hopefully it last us another 6 years.
IBM xSeries 346 : 2U Rack Mount
Location: Server Room, MCCL 106, SLU 10430
uname: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE #11: Thu Feb 23 09:28:22 CST 2006 root@cs.selu.edu:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/PWNED
uptime: 4:53PM up 37 days, 17:39, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Sysop: Jason Fried
Co-Sysop: Clint Trahan (BOFH in training)