Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 14, 2007 04:49 AM
Hello Joey,
First, thank you profusely for working on Debian. Second, please continue!
We use Debian GNU/Linux on some boxes for both syslogging and NetFlow collection for some of our Cisco devices. The two apps for this are softflowd and flow-tools. Yes, the boxes have GNOME and Synaptic on them for easier local administration at the console. That means that Evolution is on there, too. All of them have the 2.6.8 kernel. The boxes are Pentium 4, 2.8GHz boxes, with 2GB DRAM each.
Given all this stuff on there (GNOME, etc.), we figured it'd be a great way to test whether Sarge will indeed upgrade to Etch. So, last night, we did it, from a remote SSH session.
The result: after three and a half hours, "apt-get dist-upgrade" was complete. We rebooted the box, SSH'd back in, and then upgraded to the 2.6.18-4-686 kernel. Rebooted again.
EVERYTHING WORKS FINE.
NOT A SINGLE THING BROKE.
Now, try that kind of upgrade with MS Windows...without breaking something.
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Just upgraded a box from Sarge to Etch last night
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 14, 2007 04:49 AMFirst, thank you profusely for working on Debian. Second, please continue!
We use Debian GNU/Linux on some boxes for both syslogging and NetFlow collection for some of our Cisco devices. The two apps for this are softflowd and flow-tools. Yes, the boxes have GNOME and Synaptic on them for easier local administration at the console. That means that Evolution is on there, too. All of them have the 2.6.8 kernel. The boxes are Pentium 4, 2.8GHz boxes, with 2GB DRAM each.
Given all this stuff on there (GNOME, etc.), we figured it'd be a great way to test whether Sarge will indeed upgrade to Etch. So, last night, we did it, from a remote SSH session.
The result: after three and a half hours, "apt-get dist-upgrade" was complete. We rebooted the box, SSH'd back in, and then upgraded to the 2.6.18-4-686 kernel. Rebooted again.
EVERYTHING WORKS FINE.
NOT A SINGLE THING BROKE.
Now, try that kind of upgrade with MS Windows...without breaking something.
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