At the University of Rennes 1, in philosophy department, there is a computer.

Full of dust, even if is in a very clean classroom. As if there was the superstition of the dust making it working, as in a voodoo curse.

The keyboard is a mechanical one, and the mice has a ball in it, from before the laser-based ones.

There was a Windows sticker at the side. Can't remember, but it was before Windows XP. It was already plugged in, so I turned it on to see what would happen, and then... Our teacher told us we had to go to switch room with another class. I could not see what happen.

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I came back one week later, the screen was turned off as I let it, but the computer was still running! I plugged the screen power cable, and turned it on:


A linux getty prompting for my login!

What is this system? An old Linux on a very old hardware? Ctrl + Alt + Del, and systemd reboots... Systemd? Not that old after all...

Now it boot up!

At least, no tricky UEFI to configure, plain old BIOS please!

With these green (or red if FAIL) [ OK ] at the right, I assume it is systemd, right?

So it is a RedHat we got there, (written in red, obviously).

I hope to cross more of these relics along my way.

[EDIT] typo!