On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:33:03AM +0000, Marco De Vitis wrote: > Hi, > in the next few days I'll have to replace an old server running Debian > Sarge with a new machine, and I was wondering: maybe I should directly > install Etch on it, now that it almost reached its "stable" status? > This depends on how new your new hardware is. I'd be tempted to install Etch straight away - there _will_ be an Etch release soon :)
> I know I could install Sarge and then upgrade to Etch afterwards, but a > previous upgrade from Woody to Sarge was not totally successful, so I'd > prefer to avoid this, if possible. The upgrade process is well documented - but there were a lot of changes (XFree -> Xorg, udev, kernel 2.6 by default) - so it may be easier to install from scratch. > > It's a production server so stability is important, although it mostly > serves as a Samba PDC and file sharing machine, mailserver only for > internal (LAN) mail, and some other minor stuff (HTTP, Jabber...). > Having been running Etch for many months, application stability is good. This will also bring you the Firefox -> Iceweasel change which means that you will be running the equivalent to Firefox 2.0. Go for it :) > Thanks. > > -- > Ciao, > Marco. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
