Re: Linux upgrade.

From	D <nospam@example.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Linux upgrade.
Date	2024-12-24 15:26 +0100
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On Tue, 24 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

> On 12/23/24 4:21 PM, D wrote:
>> As part of my christmas tradition, I always upgrade my linux when the 
>> holiday starts. The reason is that if something goes wrong, I have a long 
>> time to fix it, without anything work related getting in the way.
>> 
>> Every year, I am equally surprised when things just work. I move my dot 
>> files, and all application are there, with the settings I'm used to.
>> 
>> Even my compiled programs such as alpine, leafnode and possibly one or two 
>> more, and my python invoicing application, could just be moved and worked 
>> right away.
>> 
>> So the upgrade took me 45 minutes, and the only modification I needed to do 
>> was to update my midnight commander config file, because apparently someone 
>> in the project decided on a new config format between version 3 and version 
>> 4.
>> 
>> Impressive!
>
>
>  What ? WHAT ??? An actual LINUX question ???!!!  :-)

Apologies!

>  Me, I just generally avoid serious kernel upgrades ...
>  just the usual auto-upgrades until I feel it's time
>  to jump up two or three whole distro versions. It's
>  only 'home use' now, so I'm not so worried about
>  Vlad and Xi.

Same here + the company web server, but it only has two ports open to the 
net, so nothing to worry about there.

Then I have my colleague who runs some hosting, and I actually have no 
idea what he runs. Since he is responsible, he gets free choice as long as 
it's not windows or kubernetes, and those rules he has followed.

>  Alas most of my stuff is Deb based, and WORM was
>  NOT encouraging - too 'Canonical' now. DO have
>  some Arch/Fedora based boxes though ... may just
>  go straight Fedora for awhile ........
>
>  DID love OpenSUSE - but now it's kinda trapped in
>  the IBM/RHEL vortex. Don't wanna be an unpaid
>  beta-tester for IBM.

Yes, opensuse has served me well for at least a decade if not more. But 
I've heard rumours they will stop with the leap distribution and do some 
kind of rootless, or rolling release stuff _only_. I do not like it! I 
want stability and not sand shifting under my feet.

So if/when they disappear, I'm looking at FreeBSD to replace it, 
alternatively possibly debian or slckware. We'll see!

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