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