Hello Philosphere,

>> I bet I only can download a fresh version ( does that exist for one of
>> the fisrt raspberry?.

> I think that should be fine

Yes, I am using the 2018 Raspbian an RISC OS builds on my oldest Pi 1B.
I think the 2019 versions will do the same.

> Presumably you need an up to date 32 bit buid.

> Upgrading a linux computer is time consuming, but not hard

> Copy any thing special off te pi first, the nuke the installation with a
> fresh one, the re do all te custom configurations...

For this task I made a textfile: Personalisation to not forget a step,
as I do this once a year only.

>> Or simply leave it like this and re-use it?

> if its a totally new applicatin upgrade and start again.

Not allways. Some times, I just want to run the old version ;-).
The new version has bugs, or do things I donot like,
or misses something the older version still has.

Henri.

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