On Wednesday 09 March 2011 02:13:17 pm Jason Hsu wrote: > I'd especially like to hear from those of you who are Linux consultants or > sysadmins. This is a timely topic given that Debian Squeeze moved from the > testing branch to the stable branch. > > Which do you prefer: Upgrading the old OS or doing a fresh installation? I > learn towards a fresh installation. > > One the one hand, upgrading the old OS is fast and requires no downtime IF > everything goes well. Of course, that is one big IF, and I'm not sure if > things have ever gone perfectly in the entire history of the world. Some > things change from one version of Debian to the next, and what worked in > the old version won't work at all in the new version, especially in the > area of configuration files. The more packages you have installed, the > more problems you'll have. > > On the other hand, a fresh installation bypasses the upgrade issues. You > can always just repeat the installation procedure from the previous version > of Debian and make adjustments when appropriate. You need to properly back > up the personal/company files in this case, but you'd have to do that > anyway as a precaution if you use the upgrade route. > > What do you think? > > -- > Jason Hsu <jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com>
I find that upgrades work very well for workstations. My workstation has a few services running, apache, samba, nfs, multi-head xorg file, multiple hard drives (fstab) I like that I don't have to start over configuring stuff to get back to where I was. It might depend on how complicated your setup us. I do like separate partitions/hd for /home, /usr/local & /pub/mirrors. A fresh would not be a complete disaster. In my experience upgrades have gone well as long as I read the release note, I also following this list for heads up on issues. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201103091703.35815.gomadtr...@gci.net
