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Debian Upgrade Marathon: 3.1 Sarge

Debian Upgrade Marathon: 3.1 Sarge

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·September 12, 2025

neilv

This series of posts highlights one of the features of Debian that's occasionally handy: you can usually upgrade between major stable releases in an automated way.

It can be good for workstation laptops, and for pets-not-cattle servers.

Stability for a couple years, then in-place upgrade to newer versions of things all at once.

Whether this upgrading incrementally keeps working smoothly for decades, I haven't read all of OP's posts to find out. But I've had machines running well after a few major upgrades, and even moving the HDD/SSD between upgraded laptop hardware.

buildbot

I’m personally really happy people are interested enough to both try installing old operating systems using old hardware and blog about it!