Upgrading to Debian Etch
Today Debian released it’s first operating system upgrade in nearly two years, codenamed “Etch”. While Debian has received a lot of criticism recently over its long release cycle and internal politics, it remains a very stable, production-quality distribution that is simultaneously simple to maintain.
To upgrade my entire system I simply ran aptitude dist-upgrade and answered a few configuration prompts. Debian is by far the simplest to administrate of all the Linux and Unix systems I’ve maintained.