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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Fedora, Debian and other GNU/Linux distributions
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Dmitry A. Kazakov expounded in
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> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:19:22 -0700 (PDT), Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> 
>> Debian's philosophy is "install once, upgrade many" and indeed, I
>> only install once per machine. I've had my current laptop since
>> November 2006, when I installed Debian on it, and it have upgraded it
>> constantly ever since. I normally upgrade every week or so, tracking
>> the "testing" distribution. I have also successfully upgraded servers
>> from one stable release to the next several times.
> 
> Sounds promising. Upgrading to Fedora Core 13 dismays me. And Debian
> seems to be the best maintained Ada Linux distribution.

That's good to hear. I am a Debian fan as well. I even have
it running on an old Dec Alpha machine, which I should boot
up again and update. ;-)

Warren