On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Bill Oliver <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I am a big fan of fresh installs.
>

Same here :)


> Doing a smart fresh install does not mean that you have to lost data or
> even reinstall many proprietary apps, if you keep your data and those apps
> on a different partition.  And, in fact, doing a clean install doesn't take
> much more time than doing an upgrade.
>
> billo


Exactly. I have separate partitions for / and  /home. In this way, I won't
worry about losing my important files. And doing 'dpkg --get-selections' and
'dpkg --set-selections' allows me to reinstall most of the applications that
I had previously on my new install without doing it manually.

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