Upgrading

[baza]

I read a posting today that made me a bit gloomy. A person posted that a 
fresh install of Hoary gives you a better system than going from warty 
using apt-get dist-upgrade.

I thought one of the advantages of Debian is you can upgrade without 
having to re-install? It's a bit of a sod if I have to do that because 
I've got things running as I want, nice Java, flash, DVD, lots of cool 
stuff like Nvu. If I had to reinstall it would be pain. Not to mention 
the last time I did that I killed Windows (which I use for games).

Baza