Dapper upgrade from Breezy

[Daniel Carrera]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> If however you run a well-administered machine, you in all likelihood
> won't have problems. Anyway, I would expect a production server to have
> a backup server. If there is none, the uptime requirements can not be
> very strict.

But this is still possible. My laptop is a well-administered machine, 
and there is no way I could have used it differently that could have 
prevented the problem I had (Dapper didn't see the ethernet card). So 
even on well-administered machines, problems can arise. Also, backups 
might let you get the system running again, but you still have the 
downtime, which is what the OP was worried about.

> In the end however it comes down to this: what services does the machine
> provide and would they benefit from an upgrade? I would be hard pressed
> to say what a file server or mail server would do better as Dapper than
> as Breezy.

Good point.

> If Dapper provides something you need which can not be achieved by other
> means, such as backports, then by all means upgrade.

I think that the main attractiveness of Dapper is a 5-year support period.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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