Re: Why Debian?
Torsten Hilbrich <Torsten.Hilbrich@bln.de> writes:
>
> [...]
> Yes!! I heard that the a.out->ELF update worked well in Debian system
> (no own experience, I started using Debian with 1.2).
>
Indeed. At my previous job, I upgraded a HTTP proxy server from a.out
to ELF format with only 2 minutes downtime: i.e. the time needed to
reboot a kernel that supported both binary formats. All the other
stuff, libraries, daemons, utilities, ... were upgraded multiuser,
with a fully functioning proxy! (I tested the scenario first on
another, non production host though, just to be sure).
In some situations, this is an important feature.
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