Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased
On Mon, 06 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> [forgot I wanted to comment on the other paragraph as well]
>
> On Du, 05 mai 13, 19:30:00, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >
> > I never use the "Stable" name any more. Learned my lesson a
> > few years ago when I upgraded an install of Etch--sources set to
> > "Stable"--not realizing that Lenny had just become the new
> > "Stable". I ended up with a hybrid system, a mix of Etch and
> > Lenny. Amazingly, it still worked. And still does. However, I
> > never 'apt-get upgraded' again for fear of trashing it.
>
> It should be possible to upgrade it completely to lenny and then
> squeeze and then wheezy. Reading the corresponding Release Notes is
> strongly recommended.
Possible? Theoretically, yes. But, practically, I doubt it. The
system is a 12 year old Thinkpad 240X with a 500MHz Pentium and 192MB
of RAM. When booting is complete and only the desktop (XFCE) is running,
it uses about 125MB of RAM. I don't think it has the resources for
anything more advance than Etch really. And then there's the problem of
drivers for the old hardware.
B
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