On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 08:52:18AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 10:22:17AM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Take the opportunity to at least upgrade to Debian 9 and, ideally, 10. > > Debian 11 should be here inside a month - if you can get to 10, you'll > > have at least a further year of security support for 10. > > Worth noting that skipping releases when upgrading isn't supported, so > there's no advantage to waiting for the next one--you'll still have to > upgrade in order.
So: havng done this - 7 - 8 - 9 on an old machine at work was not too difficult if you take it steadily. You face at least two changes to get it oldoldstable soon :( Andy C >