I was really impressed that the author was able to upgrade from i686 to PAE to AMD64, all on the same Debian install. The crossgrade tool for the latter is particularly impressive.
Also, I must be getting old, because in my mind systemd and Gnome 3 are still fresh controversies, not part of a “remember when” retrospective.
> Also, I must be getting old, because in my mind systemd and Gnome 3 are still fresh controversies, not part of a “remember when” retrospective.
Yup! :-) In Debian, it was a decade ago (10 and 12 years respectively, in Jessie and Wheezy).
So you remember when /usr used to not be merged? Joking.
Friend, I remember doing horrible things to my config files to get XFree86 working. My first distro was Red Hat (not RHEL) 5. The /usr merge was last week.