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Since your Etch systems get no updates since February 2010, I would think that it is a good time to upgrade.
Regarding the release of Squeeze, we Sid users simply don't care.
Not really, in one of my VMs I have an installation of Lenny with apt-cacher-ng. I install Debian a lot in many VMs to make experiments, and apt-cacher-ng is really a good tool for that, it speeds up things really. Hmm, maybe I should upgrade that to Squeeze.
I have squeeze presently, so does that mean that I have to make changes to sources.list, to keep it as squeeze?
I ask that bcause I like the way my systems are running.
Also does that move sid to the testing position?
Check your sources.list file. If it says "testing" you will track the testing branch (which will be codenamed "wheezy"). If you want to stick with Squeeze when it transitions, just make sure it says "squeeze" instead of "testing".
Unstable is always labeled "sid". But packages from "sid" will start transitioning immediately to the testing branch, which will adopt the codename "wheezy".
Check your sources.list file. If it says "testing" you will track the testing branch (which will be codenamed "wheezy"). If you want to stick with Squeeze when it transitions, just make sure it says "squeeze" instead of "testing".
Mine says squeeze, the only place testing is listed is on commented out cd.
I've been running squeeze for a while, but I'm still getting excited.
Once it's stable, I'll hook it up to the backports repository, maybe run it until the next "testing" is frozen. Nothing like rock-solid Debian stable-- no fear of the broken updates or incomplete kernels that shipped with that distribution that starts with a "U".
I feel kinda sorry for the other guys. Must be boring having a release party every six months.
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