On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Kumar Appaiah akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in wrote:
While making new installs may be your preference, Debian is designed for avoiding this, since all you need to do to jump from one stable version to another is an apt-get dist-upgrade. And if you do remain faithfully with stable, before an update to a new stable, a mere glance at potential issues before doing the apt-get dist-upgrade should suffice. Doing a reinstall sort of defeats this purpose, IMHO. Also, it is possible to dist-upgrade using CDs as well, provided you have all the CDs necessary for the dist-upgrade of all packages on your machine.
Even newbie like me can live with Debian!
My home machine is running Debian from October 2005 without reinstalling any new distro on it. It is Sid now and works fine for me (TM).