> Is it a good idea to keep upgrading? That is another question - > probably not a good idea to keep doing it. This and many other forums > are full of horror stories about dealing with the accumulated config > junk left over from the dist upgrades.
but there are also horror stories of migrating application data from an old server to a new one. i can tell you a few. i am not disagreeing with you; rock and hard place. we've been forward migrating debians happily for a long time, ubuntus a bit less happily, and freebsd has become hell, driving us away from freebsd. randy
