Tim Kelley wrote: > I'm a server admin for a living, for the last 25 years, I mean data centers > and lately, cloud. There a very few conditions that would make me > dist-upgrade a server, that is absolutely primitive. Servers are created > from scratch in minutes at will from an SCMS or automated install and if > not, you are wrong!
So a client comes to you as a professional admin. Let's say they have an aging Squeeze LTS based web server. They want to move to Jessie which you may have heard is recently released. Would you re-install their system to Jessie and ask them to reinstall their web site from scratch? Or would you spend twenty minutes upgrading from Squeeze 6 to Wheezy 7 and then from Wheezy 7 to Jessie 8? I know what I would do. I would upgrade. (After ensuring a proper backup. Backups are needed regardless.) Debian is all about being able to upgrade. I upgrade all of my systems each and every day. Reinstalling them every day would be insane. Upgrades are trivial. BTW... A request to all. Please trim your quoted replies. Top posting on top of hundreds of lines is poor form. Take a look at this posting for example. There were 7 lines of original content in it. Yet the entire message was 189 lines. That is a lot of noise to have to wade through to read those 7 lines of original content. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/04/msg01743.html Bob
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