[HN Gopher] Upgrading from Debian Jessie to Bullseye after nearl... ___________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-27 23:00 UTC)