[Tfug] Machine Rehabilitation

[Andrew Ayre]

Claude Rubinson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 04:33:44PM -0700, Andrew Ayre wrote:
>> Claude Rubinson wrote:
>>> Here's the thing.  Once you install, you simply stop worrying about it.
>>> Having pointed your sources.list to ../debian stable main, the next
>>> time that a stable version is released, your system will be seamlessly
>>> upgraded.  No muss, no fuss, and no worrying about your system no
>>> longer being supported.  Granted, it's a very different way of
>>> thinking about it but in the end it means that you stop worrying about
>>> your operating system and just focus on your work.
>>>
>>> Rick Moen has a nice discussion of the concept of releases in Debian
>>> over at http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/releases-unimportant.html
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>>
>>> Claude
>> Hi Claude,
>>
>> Please bear with me while I try to understand how this works. I think I
>> am misunderstanding something important.
> 
> I'm not the best person to answer these questions as I'm only doing
> minimal admin on a couple of personal systems at this point but I'll
> pass along what I recall.
> 

Thanks for the detailed response. It's given me a lot of food for
thought about the best way to manage our servers that use Debian.

regards, Andy

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Andy
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