On Monday 22 May 2006 21:22, ronw@paradise.net.nz wrote:
I ahve just finished D/L 10.1 and are ready to use it. What is the recommendation is it better to upgrade version 10.0 or blow it away and install 10.1 anew. Normally I would just start afresh but I do have a lot of stuff installed on the box and I wonder if I would be better off upgrading seeing its only a minor upgrade. What do others think?
Note: This is just my opinion. YMMV and other people have had very different experiences. I would *not* 'blow out' 10.0 to make room for a 'fresh' 10.1 installation. I would *not* upgrade 10.0 either. I would find/add room to install 10.1 in parallel and keep my heavily customized 10.0 for 'daily' use. With this approach, I buy some time to learn about some of the fairly major changes implemented in 10.1. There are also some sorely needed patches in the pipeline. Don't get me wrong... I'm really excited about 10.1. It is definitely much "snappier" on my system and it has a great 'fit and finish'... but there are a number of newly introduced potential headaches. Pay particular attention to posts here on non-GPL drivers, dropped 'legacy' graphics adapter support, the new security updates system, difficulties setting up LCD displays and/or problems configuring graphics with SaX2. I've seen a couple of other possible trends discussed here since the release but they escape me right now. My principal system is presently 10.0 and it's running beautifully. I have a 'smoothly configured' 9.3 as a fallback... installed in parallel. I have an almost 100% joy 10.1 installed in parallel, too, but I'm still not ready to make it my 'daily' system. hth & regards, Carl