Now that oldstable is oldoldstable, I bit the bullet and upgraded to jessie from wheezy. The upgrade process was surprisingly smooth. Systemd… well, many megabytes of flames have been written about that before. There isn’t much I can add to it other than a) the idea still disturbs me on some level b) pragmatically, it seems to work ok so far c) I have so many other things to worry about.
Since Debian just dropped a new stable version, I’ll probably upgrade to that in a while (~ a quarter or so, or whenever the first patch release drops) to give fresh bugs time to shake out.
No system capacity changes with this update. When pc.o first migrated to linode, I don’t remember for sure, but I think it was something like 512mb ram and (10? 20?) gb of disk. Now for the same price it’s 4gb of ram and 48gb of disk. The former felt a bit cramped at times, but now … I almost feel embarrassed to have so much capacity for what is fundamentally a personal fuck-around-with-shit server. I’d move to a smaller plan but it seems like a pretty big hassle potentially for a savings of maybe $10/mo.
I’m sure this is interesting to all like four or five of you who use pc.o for anything, but I felt obligated to keep the tradition of saying something about system updates alive. As always if you do use pc.o and notice something weird, let me know and I’ll try to fix it.