Jeremy Visser <jeremy@visser.name> wrote:
I should point out that no operating system is invulnerable from monkey attacks like this one. I have seen Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X installations b0rked due to upgrades where a monkey took control before it completed. Unfortunately that’s the way the cookie crumbles, and data recovery is probably the best long-term option.
Opinions will probably differ, but, having run Debian testing and unstable for a very long time, I somewhat prefer to upgrade just a subset of the packages every couple of days or every week than to upgrade the entire system in one move from one release to a significantly different release. This way, by reading the log of which packages were upgraded, I often know where to look and what to try downgrading when something breaks, as it sometimes does.