The Ultimate Question - Upgrade or Re-Install?

[Anthony M Simonelli]

On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 10:25 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 04/23/2007 09:06 AM, Amichai Rotman wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Please don't flame me for this ;-)
> > 
> > I wold like to know - should I upgrade (using the Upgrade option in the
> > Update Notifier) or should I just d/l the whole ISO and fomat / re-install
> > from scratch?
> > 
> > My system is on a separate partition, so I won't loose any data.
> > 
> > Also, I hear the Lightscribe support issue was resolved in Feisty.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > 
> 
> Unless you've got a whole day to kill, I'd reinstall... see my thread:
> Edgy to Feisty Upgrade - CD/Time
> 
> That said, the upgrade (albeit slower than reloading an entire IBM 3705)
> worked as advertised for me. On my other systems, reinstalling from the
> Alternate CD, moving the data back over etc., only took a few hours.
> *But* then I spent a couple days tuning each desktop to get them back
> just as I wanted them - so either way it will take time.
> 
> 

I'm running an Edgy 6.10 LTSP server at work.  I know that
Ubuntu/Canonical suggest using an LTS release but I need the updated
packages of the desktop (otherwise I'd go with Debian!)  Besides, I'd
only have support until June of 2008 for the desktop side.

Anyway, I have about 5 users with lots of data, emails, settings,
bookmarks, etc. in the home directory.  I'm thinking about just updating
but I have noticed that a fresh install seems to be a bit 'cleaner'.
I've got a test box that I've gotten to be nearly identical to the
production server, which I plan on trying both methods.  I also plan on
using the following method to move user settings, passwords and data:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-move-migrate-user-accounts-old-to-new-server/

I'll let you know how it goes...