> James Wilkinson wrote:
>
> Maybe I've been in debian-land for too long, but as updating for me is
> such a non-issue, I see no reason to not do it -- especially as newer
> versions are the ones that are actively supported.
*However*, whilst it's all sweet and easy to do all these things in Debian,
you still have to be informed.
As with any software (cars even, not that I know much about cars), read the
release notes of every version, find out what's changed, make sure you know
about things that effect you. The Debian maintainers can only do so much -
you have to know what's appropriate for you.
Keep your servers on stable, and get on the mailing lists to hear what's
going on.
Of course, on your home machine, buy the latest hardware, run ridiculously
bleeding-edge kernels - preferably with obscure performance enhancing patches
that probably to more harm than good -> Wine in the kernel? Must see. httpd
daemon in the kernel? I'm listening - compile everything from CVS (if you
don't do this, you're just not trying) and run a different filesystem on
every *partition*.
Oh, and you might want to think about backing up both. Just in case.
- Jeff
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