I did the upgrade from sarge to etch, following the release notes. All
went well. This was a massive change. Thanks to those who made such a
complex process manageable by normal users.


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charles norwood wrote:
> I did the upgrade from sarge to etch, following the release notes. All
> went well. This was a massive change. Thanks to those who made such a
> complex process manageable by normal users.

Me too!!!

Many thanks to our release managers and all developers for spending the
past 21 months preparing and releasing Etch!

Etch is a great OS and a great distribution -- to me it's the best
software I ever had. I would switch to something better than debian, but
I know that such a move will remain unlikely for the foreseeable future! 8-)

I had some minor glitches on upgrading from sarge, but those could be
sorted out quickly with the prompt of a release manager taking some
of his precious time to lend me a hand! Special thanks to Steve!

Debian has faced some criticism in the past regarding things like the
Mozilla rebrandings, Dunk tank discussions echoing in the media, so I
would like to stand up and to encourage the developers to continue their
work just like in the past. Debian's policy has never been to be the
sexiest distribution around, and while media etc. like to hype any OS or
distribution based on its 'sexiness', all Debian users know that
stability, maintainability, etc. all work against 'sexiness', but
ultimately are more important and are the key factors for Debian's long
time success among its users.

Keep debian simple, stable and universal; keep out of the hype! Stay
firm on debian's design principles and the social contract; keep up the
great work!

Take my humble thanks for making my computers work great -- they
wouldn't work as good and as smoothly without Debian!

Johannes

Debian GNU/Linux -- makes other OSes look crap.


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Thanks to all!

Many thanks to our release managers and all developers for spending the
past 21 months preparing and releasing Etch!

Etch is a great OS and a great distribution -- to me it's the best
software I ever had. I would switch to something better than debian, but
I know that such a move will remain unlikely for the foreseeable future! 8-)

I had some minor glitches on upgrading from sarge, but those could be
sorted out quickly with the prompt of a release manager taking some
of his precious time to lend me a hand! Special thanks to Steve!

Debian has faced a little criticism in the past regarding things like
the Mozilla rebrandings, Dunc tank discussions echoing in the media, so
I would like to stand up and to encourage the developers ignore such
nonsense and to continue their work just like in the past. Debian's
policy has never been to be the sexiest distribution around, and while
media etc. like to hype any OS or distribution based on its 'sexiness',
all Debian users know that stability, maintainability, etc. all work
against 'sexiness', but ultimately are more important and are the key
factors for Debian's long time success among its users.

Keep debian simple, stable and universal; keep out of the hype! Stay
firm on debian's design principles and the social contract; keep up the
great work!

Take my humble thanks for making my computers work great -- they
wouldn't work as good and as smoothly without Debian!

Johannes


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Johannes Wiedersich wrote:

Sorry for reposting; I meant to forward this to the developers at
debian-devel.

Johannes


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On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 06:30:13PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> charles norwood wrote:
> >I did the upgrade from sarge to etch, following the release notes. All
> >went well. This was a massive change. Thanks to those who made such a
> >complex process manageable by normal users.
>
> Me too!!!
>

AOL!!!!

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On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 06:30:13PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Many thanks to our release managers and all developers for spending the
> past 21 months preparing and releasing Etch!

> Debian's policy has never been to be the sexiest distribution around,
> and while media etc. like to hype any OS or distribution based on its
> 'sexiness', all Debian users know that stability, maintainability,
> etc. all work against 'sexiness', but ultimately are more important
> and are the key factors for Debian's long time success among its
> users.
>

Sort of like the difference between a super model and a super wife?
While not mutually exclusive, one has more enduring qualities than the
other.


> Keep debian simple, stable and universal; keep out of the hype! Stay
> firm on debian's design principles and the social contract; keep up the
> great work!

Yeah, like a good husband.

>
> Take my humble thanks for making my computers work great -- they
> wouldn't work as good and as smoothly without Debian!
>

>
> Debian GNU/Linux -- makes other OSes look crap.

I agree with the OP. However, I have yet to upgrade my 486; I'll let
you know if that works, or if Linux has left my old box for newer
models.

Thanks all,

Doug.


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charles norwood wrote:
> I did the upgrade from sarge to etch, following the release notes. All
> went well. This was a massive change. Thanks to those who made such a
> complex process manageable by normal users.

AOL.
I did the task on Tuesday, on a (pseudo)machine I use at work. No
problem at all with the upgrade path outlined in the release notes, the
only issue is the mouse wheel not working anymore in X-Window, which
I'll investigate later. At home I already use testing so no need to
upgrade (well, sooner or later I'll have to switch to lenny , I think ^_^).

(The "pseudo" part is because in fact it's an installation on a MS
Virtual PC drive *shrug*; I had to quickly replace some time ago a real
machine that started to show some hardware problem - it was quite old
and at times refused to boot at all. Works pretty well, and quite fast too).

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