How long will you wait to install etch when it becomes the stable dist?
Submitted by chris on Fri 8 Dec 2006
| Straight away |
   43% | 205 votes |
| Within a few days |
19% | 91 votes |
| Within two weeks |
7% | 37 votes |
| Within a month |
14% | 68 votes |
| More than a month |
11% | 53 votes |
| Not going to update |
4% | 21 votes |
| Total 475 votes |
However I'm using qemu to test the upgrade at the moment, the result of how easy that is will determin how keen I am to upgrade well running systems.
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Adam
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I suppose I could have made the question more specific - but - there's only so much screen space for polls.
Myself - I have three sarge and two sid installs - sarge for servers, sid for testing and my own desktop. I will probably update the least important server within two weeks, then the others within the first month.
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Since it hasn't been released you can't be!
(More seriously you're essentially running a testing/pre-release version of etch...)
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Felipe Sateler
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I have etch on my laptop since a month, and the new servers will go production in one ASAP. This means about 10 physical machines. Virtual machine remain in sarge for a while.
This is mainly becose we badly need some features not easily in sarge (f.e. multipath 0.4.7, xen 3.0).
-=Lajbi=-
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Woody was around forever. Sarge seems to have a short life.
Is there a published lifetime for Etch?
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Woody was stable forever because Sarge took too long. The plan for Sarge is for it to be stable for around 18 months, and then be replaced by Etch. Once Etch is out Sarge will be maintained for as long as volunteers can maintain it, say 6-12 months.
HTH.
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Adam
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The security team intends to support each release until one year after the release of its successor.
So assuming that Etch is released upon January 1st 2007 then Sarge will remain supported until January 1st 2008.
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I want to upgrade ASAP for servers.
We currently run Sarge with DotDeb updates of PHP, MySQL, and it would be desirable to move to stable versions of these (although Gui at detdeb has been superb), and to get new versions of Postfix installed.
I'm a bit disappointed at version of bind9 in Etch, as there are some improvements upstream, but I guess if I cared enough I'd have done something about it.
The main motivation here, is to keep the focus of the security team (they can only do so much, so quickly, I'm guessing stable trumps old stable in terms of priorities), and to pick up less critical bug fixes long overdue. I also don't want to leave my successor a load of boxes running some long dead versions of Debian, like the Redhat (6 and 7) I inherited, some of which already had serious security issues.
We still have one old Redhat box to replace....
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I can't wait for Etch to come out. The disk crypto features and xen integration look great. I also hope 2.6.18 makes it in.
I will probably wait 1-3 months before I add it to my list of production distro's, replacing Sarge. We have developers currently using it on the desktop, and we will be heavily testing it during that 1-3 month period.
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Yours sincerely Peter Kotrcka
S pozdravom Peter Kotrcka
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Plese report back what happens? My QEMU simulated upgrades from Sarge to Etch seemed to go okay, I've yet to do the upgrade for real though.
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Adam
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Means: I'm running Etch on all but one system for some months now...
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gfwp
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So to answer the question - minus several months.
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