On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:59 -0500, Matt Harrison wrote: > However, that being said, I am looking to switch back. I know Lenny > is currently Stable but I have seen posts suggesting Squeeze will be > out within a few months hopefully so I am wondering if I should just Squeeze is expected to be released on the 5./6. February. [0] > put it off until Squeeze becomes the current Stable or if I should > install the RC of Squeeze....or...just install the current version of > Lenny and then upgrade to Squeeze when it becomes Stable. You could install using the rc2 installer, but there are still some problems. Check [1] and [2] > I know the Ubuntu upgrade between distros is crap so I really don't > want to just finish customizing Lenny to the way I want it to only > have an upgrade reinstall all of the packages that I just uninstalled. Debian has typically no problems to upgrade between releases. The key is to follow the release notes. They describe the complete process in great detail. [3] [0] http://lists.debian.org/20110118193635.GC4061@halon.org.uk [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/installmanual [2] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ [2] http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland <wolodja.wentland@ed.ac.uk> : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC
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