Apple have announced they're switching to x86, so make that 2 steps closer...

I saw that on the Reg.. Had to check the date, for a brief moment I thought April 1 had come back already!

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:28:04AM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:

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You know hell has frozen over when the best golfer is black[1], the best rapper is white[2], Apple is on x86[3], MS is on PowerPC[4] ??? and there???s a new Debian release[5].

??? Source unknown

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Singh [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem [3] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBox360 [5] http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050606

Also: http://www.overclockers.at/attachment.php?attachmentid=80974

How Duke Nukem Forever didn't appear on unknown's link we'll never know.

James.

If anyone does an upgrade from 3.0 let us know how you go and if there were any problems. I'm not going to jump in and upgrade mine just yet because breaking my girlfriends machine is infinitely scarier than killing a commercial server.

I've just upgraded a server from 3.0 to 3.1. Aptitude is the "official" way to perform the upgrade from 3.0 to 3.1 I believe, due to some deficiencies in apt-get.

Upgrading desktops *will* be harder, due to the version bump in all your "desktop" apps. Eg, GNOME 1.4 to 2.8, etc. This might be a painful path, and it might be a lot easier to backup any useful data in your home directories, move them elsewhere, then start clean.

James Clark wrote:

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:50:01AM +1200, Daniel Lawson wrote:

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I've just upgraded a server from 3.0 to 3.1. Aptitude is the "official" way to perform the upgrade from 3.0 to 3.1 I believe, due to some deficiencies in apt-get.

I was about to call FUD, but it appears that this is true:

http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes.en.txt -- section 2.1 ... The sarge version of `aptitude' is the preferred program for package management from console. It has proven to be better at dependency resolution than `apt-get'. `aptitude' supports most command line operations of `apt-get'. If you are still using `dselect', you should also give `aptitude' a try as frontend for package management.

And on that note:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/06/msg00003.html

A bug has been discovered in the 3.1r0 CD/DVD images: new installs from these images will have a commented-out entry in /etc/apt/sources.list for "http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates" rather than an active entry for "http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates", and thus will not get security updates by default. This was due to incorrect Release files on the images.

New 3.1r0a images will be available shortly to correct this flaw. In the meantime, CD vendors should delay pressing CDs or DVDs of Debian 3.1. We apologise for the inconvenience.

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Sucks to be an early adopter. Have to download the entire thing again today!

Craig