Wrote James Wilkinson on Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:25:51AM +1100:
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> 3 weeks ago at work I was asked to install a new proxy machine. I got
> out a machine that had slink on it, but had not been touched (no power,
> nothing) for over 5 months. I told apt to upgrade to potato, and to use
> the security repository. I didn't expect it to work, because I hadn't
> touched the machine for so long, yet the upgrade went smoothly,
> upgrading exim, squid and bind, and none of them broke from the config I
> had created 5 months ago.
>
> >With Debian, yes, looks like it.
>
> Hmm, not from any of my machines.
Ok! Fine! Debian wins again! As usual!
=)
I'm sufficiently convinced that potato is so much better than slink that
to stay slinking would be silly. Hey and I've never even run slink
except for a few moments after installing it from the LinuxCare disk
before apt came to the rescue.
Chuck
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