On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:35:58AM +1200, Andrew Errington wrote: > > > You don't have to. Once you had it all up and running, why would you > > > want to change it?
Quite right. You only need to change the software if your requirements change; if security is one of your requirements, you only have to change when your version is end-of-lined for security updates. Not sure how long Debian support 3.0; Ubuntu commit to support the server install of Dapper (the next one, 6.6) for 5 years. (Apparently they only support the workstation install for 3 years, but I'm not currently sure of the official difference between the two) > Having said that I am given to understand that the Ubuntu upgrade procedure > is straightforward and relatively painless. Is that true? Well, yes :-) It's mostly handled by apt's dist-upgrade facility, with a couple of manual actions described on in the upgrade documentation on the Wiki. At the moment I don't think they're supporting n>2 version upgrades in one step though. On the other hand, given the opportunity, I sometimes prefer to do a clean install even if an upgrade is available; especially where there may have been large manual hackery of config and data files to get the previous version doing something that is now standard. -jim
