Re: Installing potato now - is it worth it?
> Hi!
>
> I'm a redhat user who is weary of rpm and is planning to switch to
> debian. I just have a question. If I install the frozen potato now and
> help testing it, will I be able to upgrade it to the release version
> without reinstalling the whole thing?
That is almost 100% sure.
>
> I mean, is it only packages that is easy to replace that could have
> problems?
In theory (and also in practice) each package in the debian distribution
should be easy to upgrade. The only really bad thing could be that a critical
package is in a that bad state that it is not upgradable. But I consider this
as very very unlikely (due to the long test cycle).
> I don't really want to wait until the release, but I don't want to
> reinstall everything from scratch in a week or two either.
>
If you have a kind of standard installation (i.e. something like a home
desktop) it should work very well. The documentation might be not that good at
the moment. But that is a good place to help....
--Rainer.
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