Re: Woody???

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* Mattias Berg (skitarne@hotmail.com) spake thusly:
> I'l need to dist-upgrade to woody due kernelchange.. didn't work.. totally 
> fuck'd up my server... Try'd to reinstall debian and try with unstable... 
> didn't work.. totally fuck'd up my server...
> 
> What the hell are you doing over there? Debian used to be a stable and 
> trustable distribution (95% even with unstable dist-upgrade) for just about 
> a year ago..
> 
> I have been running debian since i was 18 years old.. (i'm 23 now)..
> But i will search for a more stable distribution.. Debian sucks big time..

I also used Debian for half a decade, and I don't like where it 
is going any more that you do. However,
1. I have to babysit RedHat boxen at work, and trust me, RH is 
worse than Woody.
2. I looked for a distro that sucks less than Debian and 
concluded that there isn't one -- if you have plenty of time,
you coud build an LFS system the way you like... but who's got
the time?

Dist-upgrade to woody works fine on a *minimal* potato system
(i.e. install base system, edit apt sources, update pakage
lists, upgrade apt, dpkg et al., run dist-upgrade). I never
tried it on a fully-configured production box, but I wouldn't
be surprised if that didn't work all that well.

Repeat after me: all software sucks.

Dima
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