Re: Linux upgrade.

From	D <nospam@example.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Linux upgrade.
Date	2024-12-25 23:08 +0100
Organization	i2pn2 (i2pn.org)
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On Wed, 26 Dec 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

> D <nospam@example.net> 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.
>
> Where practical I prefer to clone the drive and upgrade the clone,
> then work on the issues while using the old OS on the original

Way to advanced for my humble infrastructure. ;) But online and in the 
hosting environment, snapshots are very convenient when doing any big 
changes. Actually, I do have btrfs on my opensuse, so when doing any 
upgrades, it does take a snapshot, so I do have the option of rolling back 
to the last good snapshot. Come to think of it, I've done it once with 
great success! =)

> drive and finally clone the upgrade drive over when everything's
> working right (after doing a backup of the old one just in case I
> was wrong). So there's no deadline as such, just the annoyance of
> needing to note when new software is installed during use so the
> same can be done on the upgrade drive.
> 
>> 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.
>
> I often have trouble with things getting unintentionally
> uninstalled.

Strangely enough, everything survived and was upgraded after the OS 
upgrade. Opensuse is a true ninja! I do not understand why not more people 
use it in production. I suspect that it is one distro that will disappear 
within the next 10 years or so, as SUSE gets more and more mismanaged.

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