Seg, 2007-02-05 às 17:23 +0100, Maarten Verwijs escreveu: > hi, > > I took the plunge and upgraded about half of the Lab here to Etch. > This is about 27 machines to date, catering almost the same amount of > users.
> In totall there are 62 Debian Desktops here. Most of the Sarge-machines > recently upgraded were installed almost 2 years ago. as debian user ... i just have to say WOW!!! Etch is really in shape :P I want to congratulate ALL debian developers, they are doing awesome work:P > > All machines are Pentium IV's (2.8 through 3.2 Ghz), with 'round 1GB of > memory. > > A small list of software installed (before upgrade): > - Gnome > - KDE > - XFCE > - autofs > - XFree86-4 > - subversion > - NIS (yp) > - Firefox > - XEmacs > - Emacs > - Vim > - Tetex > - snmp > - ntp > - cups > - openoffice (from backports) > - Evolution > > None of the users have expressed complaints or problems, even after > asking several times. If something was wrong with their XFCE/KDE/GNOME, > they'd let me know. :) > > There are 2 things that require me to do some manual labour: > * Opera. If opera is installed, upgrading from XFree86 to Xorg fails. Xorg > wants to remove a folder that Opera still has a symlink in. well ... this is an important move in this version :P > No biggy: > remove opera prior to upgrading. > Luckily for Debian, this is not their problem: it's Opera's. > > * Autofs and NIS. We still use NIS (yes we do) and NIS starts _after_ > autofs. This means autofs is not aware of the NIS information. > Therefor: no /home/* > This is a known bug, that i can work around using rc.local. > > So as far as I'm concerned: Etch is ready to go! > > Thanks for all the hard work! Debian is still the one and only > distribution for me. It Just Works. Thanks for your efforts. > > If you need more details about the installed Sarge machines that were > upgraded, please let me know. > > > Kindest regards, > > Maarten > > > > -- > Maarten Verwijs > Debian Administrator > Netherlands Institute for Space Research (www.sron.nl) > > -- Best Regards, -- Luis Matos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]