On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 11:03:59PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | From: Giles Orr via talk <[email protected]> > > | Long release cycles are a real mixed blessing ... <sigh> > > Thanks for your note on debian 12 / bookworm. > > I'm personally interested in debian as a replacement for CentOS. > (GTALUG is going to have a speaker from Rocky Linux in the next few > months.) > > I'm not enculturated in the debian world, but my impression is: > > - debian stable is about the same as RHEL. Very stable, very old. > Suitable for those who value stability. > > - debian testing is pretty reliable. Perfectly fine on ones desktop. > > - debian unstable is more of an adventure > > Ideologically, isn't FF ESR a match for debian stable? > > If you want firefox, isn't that an indication that you are a candidate > for "testing". > > I don't like snaps / flatpacks much. For reasons that we don't need > to go over. But your situation might be a great use: you want a > stable OS but need very select exceptions. > > ================== > > We (GTALUG) run a debian stretch server that has fallen out of support. > It falls on me (among others) to kick it forward. > I was under the impression that the automated updating process is more > recent then that. > > Is there a royal road to bookworm from stretch? > > My guess is that it gets complicated by out-of-distro things that we > have installed.
You can upgrade one release at a time. So upgrade to buster, then bullseye, then bookworm. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
