xordos@lonestarlemmy.mooo.com
on 19 Jul 16:37
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Great, now is a good time to switch my home server from testing to Trixie then stable. Have been use testing in all my home PCs but recently, I feel the server does not need all the latest updates.
I recently installed trixie on the desktop and will probably stay there and not move to the next testing. I hope it won’t feel that outdated after 2 years or so.
I was on Gentoo before, the packaged Gnome version there is actually lower than on trixie currently.
Novice question: Couldn’t you have switched to Trixie months ago and also don’t have to change to Stable? I thought that would give the same result.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
on 17 Aug 22:42
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Months old thread, but since you were left without an answer:
Yes, they could have switched to Trixie months ago. Changing to stable now that Trixie is released will let them somewhat automatically upgrade to Debian’s next stable version when it is released. That is why they used testing instead of Trixie, so that they would automatically get the new testing version on release.
But this is generally not recommended. It is recommended to only use the codenames to keep more control over when you upgrade.
debian publishes release notes for every new release which contain instructions on how to update from a previous version. as an example, these are the release notes for bookworm: www.debian.org/releases/stable/…/release-notes/
the release notes can be found at the release information page: www.debian.org/releases/stable/. read it carefully when the time comes
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Great, now is a good time to switch my home server from testing to Trixie then stable. Have been use testing in all my home PCs but recently, I feel the server does not need all the latest updates.
I recently installed trixie on the desktop and will probably stay there and not move to the next testing. I hope it won’t feel that outdated after 2 years or so.
I was on Gentoo before, the packaged Gnome version there is actually lower than on trixie currently.
Novice question: Couldn’t you have switched to Trixie months ago and also don’t have to change to Stable? I thought that would give the same result.
Months old thread, but since you were left without an answer:
Yes, they could have switched to Trixie months ago. Changing to stable now that Trixie is released will let them somewhat automatically upgrade to Debian’s next stable version when it is released. That is why they used testing instead of Trixie, so that they would automatically get the new testing version on release.
But this is generally not recommended. It is recommended to only use the codenames to keep more control over when you upgrade.
Thank you for the explanation. Makes sense to use the codenames.
Time to mark it on my calender to update my Laptop Running Debian.
Would love a tutorial how to update to Debian 13
debian publishes release notes for every new release which contain instructions on how to update from a previous version. as an example, these are the release notes for bookworm: www.debian.org/releases/stable/…/release-notes/
the release notes can be found at the release information page: www.debian.org/releases/stable/. read it carefully when the time comes
Ty
Likely there will be a upgrade documentation like this one for bullseye .
Feels like Bookworm just came out.