Julia Evans on Nostr: i upgraded my one NixOS server from 24.05 to 26.05 today and (while the upgrade did ...
i upgraded my one NixOS server from 24.05 to 26.05 today and (while the upgrade did break the network and locked me out of SSHing to the machine for a while until I got myself back in through the console), I think this is one of the most successful Linux operating system upgrades I've ever done. Like the system seems to still work???
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