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Slightly clickbaity: "last major OS upgrade was to jessie (Debian 8, released in April 2015). That was in 2016." "after nearly 30 years running Debian i386"

• joeyh 4y ago
  The actual title is not the inspid word soup deposited atop this thread.
  • bscphil 4y ago
    Yeah @dang this title is terrible. Maybe "Upgrading from x86 Debian Jessie directly to x64 Bullseye" would be better?
  • jklinger410 4y ago
    The original title is: chiark’s skip-skip-cross-up-grade Since that isn't very informative, I tried to simplify the first sentence: Two weeks ago I upgraded chiark from Debian jessie i386 to bullseye amd64, after nearly 30 years running Debian i386. This went really quite well, in fact! Realizing now the feet is going from i386 to amd64, rather than an old debian version upgrade. Unfortunately I can't change the title.
• GuB-42 4y ago
  Clickbait indeed, I actually clicked because I knew it was wrong. The true story is that the server started in 1993 as Debian 0.93R5, getting upgrades from time to time, the last one being Jessie to Bullseye. I expected some bullshit or parody, but here, it is genuinely impressive.
• josephcsible 4y ago
  But i386 is the architecture, and until now, none of the upgrades have changed that.
• rob_c 4y ago
  Yeah, my big feeling is it's become a philosophical question as to where it's the same server after so many updates/upgrades.