[Sysadmin] Server upgrade

[John Handelaar]

2008/10/14 William Anderson <neuro at well.com>:
> To me, ubuntu hardy made a lot more sense (LTS release, 7 years of
> updates guaranteed) than etch did (lenny will be out in a month or two,
> we'll be stuck back to running oldstable, and our updates will stop
> again in a year or two).

Actually, no: etch supports kernel upgrades through apt.  We could, if
we wanted, shift it to lenny (or hardy) whenever we like through
`apt-get dist-upgrade`.

Though if we want Ubuntu, 'on day one' would be far less likely to
result in any unpleasant issues than 'whenever we like'.


jh