Re: Updrading or reinstalling?

2010-05-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
B. Alexander put forth on 5/14/2010 10:12 PM: IMHO, Debian seems to have the best record of successful upgrades. I've in-place upgraded one of my production servers from Woody through Lenny with only relatively minor issues. I've been thoroughly impressed by Debian's dist upgrade reliability

Re: Updrading or reinstalling?

2010-05-15 Thread godo
On 05/15/2010 04:25 AM, ryanjonath...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, Just one question, Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release.. Currently still using lenny. Thanks RJB Sent from my

Re: Updrading or reinstalling?

2010-05-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:48:31AM +0200, godo wrote: On 05/15/2010 04:25 AM, ryanjonath...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, Just one question, Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release..

Re: Updrading or reinstalling?

2010-05-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
ryanjonath...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, Just one question, Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release.. Currently still using lenny. I do dist-upgrades from Sid, but I also have kept up a

Re: Updrading or reinstalling?

2010-05-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/14/2010 9:25 PM, ryanjonath...@gmail.com wrote: Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release.. Currently still using lenny. I used the testing installer recently, and was amazed at how

Updrading or reinstalling?

2010-05-14 Thread ryanjonathanb
Hi there, Just one question, Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release.. Currently still using lenny. Thanks RJB Sent from my BlackBerry® powered by Sinyal Kuat INDOSAT

Re: Updrading or reinstalling?

2010-05-14 Thread 刘宇辉
On 15 May 2010 10:25, ryanjonath...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, Just one question, Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release.. Currently still using lenny. If i were you , I'd like to

Re: Updrading or reinstalling?

2010-05-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri May 14 2010 07:25:34 pm ryanjonath...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, Just one question, Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release.. Currently still using lenny. I don't think there is a

Re: Updrading or reinstalling?

2010-05-14 Thread B. Alexander
IMHO, Debian seems to have the best record of successful upgrades. I run Sid on several of my boxes, which means it is in a constant state of upgrade. On my workstation, with a very eclectic mix of software, I have only started over from scratch twice in the last 10 years...Once in 2000 and once

Re: Updrading or reinstalling?

2010-05-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ryanjonath...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, Just one question, Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release.. Currently still using lenny. As a KDE user I currently know of one bug (it has been