Re: [rt.prgmr.com #2647] Debian Unstable?

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On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 08:37:06AM -0700, Luke S. Crawford via RT wrote:
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> <URL: http://rt.prgmr.com/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=2647 >
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> "robert b via RT" <http://www.rt.prgmr.com/~support> writes:
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> > I'd like to get off of my home server.  It runs Debian unstable.
> > 
> > Do you guys offer Debian unstable as an option for your VPS service?  Or 
> > perhaps instructions how I could set it up myself if I were to sign up with 
> > you?
> 
> Nope.  However;  apt-get dist-upgrade seems to work just fine, so 
> it is quite likely that if you followed the procedure you would use to 
> upgrade a hardware box from debian 5 to debian unstable, things would 
> Just Work.  
> 
> No guarantees (well, uh, besides the money back thing)  - I don't know
> of anyone else running debian-unstable (or, for that matter, how to
> upgrade from debian 5 to unstable... nick probably does.) 
> 
>
I'm running unstable on my vps but with the old
2.6.18-6-xen-amd64 kernel from etch just because I haven't
rebooted for a while. On our new servers the new kernels should
work very well though, and I haven't had any problems with other
unstable user programs.
Nick Schmalenberger