Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : boraxman
From : tenser
Date : Sat Apr 23 2022 02:52:43

On 22 Apr 2022 at 08:53p, boraxman pondered and said...
 
 bo>  te>  bo> To clarify, by "upgrade", it was not an format/reinstall, or ins
 bo>  te>  bo> a new OS over the old one.  It was an actual upgrade, an update 
 bo>  te>  bo> Debian from one version to the next.
 bo>  te>  bo> 
 bo>  te>  bo> Sure, most files were replaced, but it is still a testament to s
 bo>  te> 
 bo>  te> What's the difference?  Debian now is a completely different OS
 bo>  te> than it was 20 years ago.
 bo>  te> 
 bo>  te> We have data files and even configuration files from the 4.3BSD
 bo>  te> era on the ROMP machines that have made it to the new system
 bo>  te> unchanged.
 bo> 
 bo> There is a big difference between upgrading, and having continuity of
 bo> installed apps and configuration ,and installing fresh.

So on your 20 year old Debian machine you've never replaced
the storage device?

 bo> When you install fresh, you have to then install all the programs you had
 bo> previously, copy config files or reconfigure.
 bo> 
 bo> It is different.

So in those 20 years software has never been upgraded in such
a way you had to modify configuration files?  Of course, when
you do those upgrades you are, in fact, reinstalling all of
those programs.  Anyone who had to shepherd a Linux installation
through the process of moving from i386 a.out to x86_64 ELF
should be pretty familiar with this.

As I mentioned, on our machine, we have all sorts of config
files that haven't been updated since the 4.3BSD days.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

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