On Friday 03 June 2016 15:45:43 Mike McGinn wrote: > I am buying a new laptop in February, this one will be eight years old > by then. Then I shall start clean with Jessie.
By next February (9 months away), shouldn't you be thinking of Stretch? It will probably already be full-frozen, and Jessie will be nearly Old Stable. http://news.softpedia.com/news/debian-9-stretch-freeze-delayed-to-integrated-linux-kernel-4-10-501330.shtml Lisi