Re: Upgrade Experiences (27 Sarges -> Etch, and counting)
Seg, 2007-02-05 às 17:23 +0100, Maarten Verwijs escreveu:
> hi,
>
> I took the plunge and upgraded about half of the Lab here to Etch.
> This is about 27 machines to date, catering almost the same amount of
> users.
> In totall there are 62 Debian Desktops here. Most of the Sarge-machines
> recently upgraded were installed almost 2 years ago.
as debian user ... i just have to say WOW!!! Etch is really in shape :P
I want to congratulate ALL debian developers, they are doing awesome
work:P
>
> All machines are Pentium IV's (2.8 through 3.2 Ghz), with 'round 1GB of
> memory.
>
> A small list of software installed (before upgrade):
> - Gnome
> - KDE
> - XFCE
> - autofs
> - XFree86-4
> - subversion
> - NIS (yp)
> - Firefox
> - XEmacs
> - Emacs
> - Vim
> - Tetex
> - snmp
> - ntp
> - cups
> - openoffice (from backports)
> - Evolution
>
> None of the users have expressed complaints or problems, even after
> asking several times. If something was wrong with their XFCE/KDE/GNOME,
> they'd let me know. :)
>
> There are 2 things that require me to do some manual labour:
> * Opera. If opera is installed, upgrading from XFree86 to Xorg fails. Xorg
> wants to remove a folder that Opera still has a symlink in.
well ... this is an important move in this version :P
> No biggy:
> remove opera prior to upgrading.
> Luckily for Debian, this is not their problem: it's Opera's.
>
> * Autofs and NIS. We still use NIS (yes we do) and NIS starts _after_
> autofs. This means autofs is not aware of the NIS information.
> Therefor: no /home/*
> This is a known bug, that i can work around using rc.local.
>
> So as far as I'm concerned: Etch is ready to go!
>
> Thanks for all the hard work! Debian is still the one and only
> distribution for me. It Just Works. Thanks for your efforts.
>
> If you need more details about the installed Sarge machines that were
> upgraded, please let me know.
>
>
> Kindest regards,
>
> Maarten
>
>
>
> --
> Maarten Verwijs
> Debian Administrator
> Netherlands Institute for Space Research (www.sron.nl)
>
>
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Best Regards,
--
Luis Matos
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