I have a 2003-vintage machine that remains useful despite its age, and I am determined to keep it running as long as I can as a backup to my main machine. The 2003 machine was born with Red Hat 9, migrated to Ubuntu, and finally to Debian 7 last December when Ubuntu dropped support for the display card.
Yesterday, after much study of the release notes,
https://www.debian.org/releases/stab...e-notes.en.txt
I decided to proceed with the upgrade...