> Is that really true? I would love to run "apt-get dist-upgrade" every > half a year. Currently it doesn't get me much. :) Now, for production > systems, don't you do some testing *before* you upgrade the OS?
Sure I do. But I run a production environment with several hundred machines in it. We package our in-house software in .deb format to make rollouts easy. I don't look forward to regressing all of that software, and it's packaging, every six months on a new OS release. It's hard to do that even every 18 months. -- thanks, Will