[HN Gopher] Upgrading from Debian Jessie to Bullseye after nearl...
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       Upgrading from Debian Jessie to Bullseye after nearly 30 years
        
       Author : jklinger410
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2022-07-27 20:01 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (diziet.dreamwidth.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (diziet.dreamwidth.org)
        
       | foobarian wrote:
       | 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"
       | 
       | But impressive nonetheless!
        
         | joeyh wrote:
         | The actual title is not the inspid word soup deposited atop
         | this thread.
        
         | GuB-42 wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | dekhn wrote:
       | I stopped using debian for a while after a botched upgrade
       | (bo->hamm, some sort of libc4->glibc issue) and switched away.
       | But that was almost 24 years ago, so I guess this system predated
       | that.
        
       | hprotagonist wrote:
       | a domain name i know primarily from about 20 years of downloading
       | PuTTY and friends ...
        
       | superkuh wrote:
       | Too bad dreamwidth hosted blogs are behind cloudflare and set to
       | block non-corporate (or older) browsers. Try to read this post
       | from a Debian Jessie system and you'll just get a cloudflare page
       | that doesn't work.
        
         | jonathantf2 wrote:
         | Reading this from a Debian bullseye system just fine.
        
         | dvfjsdhgfv wrote:
         | This is very wrong. If someone at DW is reading this, please
         | don't do that.
        
           | acdha wrote:
           | I'd want confirmation that it's true first. People can
           | configure custom UA blocking rules on Cloudflare but based on
           | this I'd bet the problem is some custom configuration or
           | plug-in interfering with the normal human activity challenge.
           | 
           | https://www.webpagetest.org/result/220727_AiDcRG_FMH/
        
         | 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote:
         | Here is the response I got.                  the route
         | "/11840.html" is not recognized
         | 
         | Internet Archive works for Dreamwidth sites. For me, I add one
         | line to a text file and the localhost forward proxy prefixes
         | the URLs automatically.
         | 
         | https://web.archive.org/web/20220719195142if_/https://diziet...
         | 
         | FWIW, I use a non-corporate browser.
        
       | fanf2 wrote:
       | chiark hosts Simon Tatham's homepage (including PuTTY, his puzzle
       | collection, his notes on C preprocessing hacks, all of which
       | often appear on this site) and my homepage (https://dotat.at)
       | amongst many other things.
       | 
       | Here is Markus Kuhn commenting on my tweet about this article:
       | https://twitter.com/mgk25/status/1550386849071390721
        
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