[TriLUG] Upgrade Debian 7 to 8

[Aaron Morrison via TriLUG]

> On Sep 8, 2016, at 16:09, Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Ken MacKenzie <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:
>> When you switch debian versions you will need to do dist-upgrade.  Also
>> prepare for it to take a good while.
>      I do wish it was this easy in RedHat and cousins.

In the FWIW category:

It's just as easy (in theory). RHEL now supports upgrades[1] (with some limits) and Fedora has had it as well via dnf[2] (and fedup before that) for quite a while now. 

I have a system that has been upgraded to every version from F17 to F24. I still fresh install on the systems I really care about though. 

--am

[1] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/637583
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading