Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > All, > > I run Etch+backports at my home gateway/file server. Lately, I find > that many packages are too old in Etch for my needs. I am thinking of > switching to Lenny. While Lenny is not as stable as Etch, I am not > sure how much difference there is, in terms of stability. I am not > worried about a couple of packages breaking here and there and X not > firing up occasionally. I am only worried about complete breakdown > like down time on this server. So here are my quesitons > > Does Lenny breakdown occasionally completely? I mean you cannot boot > after apt-get update. > Will it cause major data corruption due to its instability? > Will it have broken kernel? > Will my NAT and firewall completely fail? > Will my samba+cifs+nfs service breakdown or cause data corruption? > > Finally, if I decide to switch, do I do a apt-get dist-upgrade or just > apt-get upgrade. What is the difference? > > Regards > Ramesh > > I have exactly the same opinion as Alan. As I wrote in another thread about debian versions, Lenny (or testing in general) is so stable that personally, having never run 'Stable', I can't imagine how much more stable could a distribution be. To summarize in 3 words: make the switch. Use aptitude dist-upgrade. In your place though, since computers are the devil's makings, I would first use clonezilla to take a full server backup to some external usb drive, in case (1 in a billion) everything explodes. Giorgos
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