Same here, on a number of machines. One of them - an Intel SS4200, now retired - I migrated from 32bit to 64bit without a reinstall. This seamless upgrade path

Same here, on a number of machines. One of them - an Intel SS4200, now retired - I migrated from 32bit to 64bit without a reinstall. This seamless upgrade path was my main reason to move from an RPM-based distribution to Debian somewhere back in 1998, having moved to Redhat from Slackware before than and from SLS to Slackware before that, from nothing to SLS somewhere in 1992.