[PLUG] Debian installation

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.dyndns.org
Wed Dec 22 21:36:56 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 22 December 2004 12:17 pm, Bryan Murdock wrote:

> That sounds really nice, and I want it.  Recently when upgrading
> (actually re-installing a newer version of) Mandrake or Fedora I've
> noticed some big changes such as the 2.6 kernel, udev, SElinux, etc. 
> Does a Debian apt-get upgrade handle those sorts of changes well?

For the most part, yes.  Of course, there's still the occasional issue 
that comes up, but that's the nature of having user-tested software.

> Does it preserve tweaks to stuff in /etc/whatever well?

Yes, debconf will even preserve hand-made changes.

> I have a Mandrake 10 machine at home that is set-up just perfectly, 
> and I've been afraid to upgrade it because I know I'll have to redo 
> all the little tweaks that I've made.  It'd be really cool to never 
> have to fear that again.  Probably worth a distro switch. 

Indeed!

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.dyndns.org
http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/
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