I am currently running 7.2 with 2.4.4 kernel. I passed on upgrading to 8.0 
because I am (mostly) happy with my current system, and didn't want to risk 
breaking things. However, 8.1 seems to include many things I have been 
waiting for (KOffice 1.1 - maybe KWord won't crash every time I close it; KDE 
2.2; Evolution) so the upgrade is probably worthwhile.

Here's the question: what are people's experiences with upgrading, rather 
than a fresh install? I don't want to have to go through the hassle of 
reconfiguring everything in /etc and all my KDE menus which would presumably 
result from a clean install, but I could do the clean install if the 
upgrading process breaks too many things. 

I am going to wait until 8.1 is officially released rather than the beta; I 
use this system too much to risk working with a beta on my primary computer.

Any help / thoughts / advice?

(BTW - I did consider just installing kde 2.2 and not upgrading the whole os, 
but there are just too many darn dependences on the rpms. That really is one 
place (maybe the only one) where I did like Windows - generally, products 
depended on windows-standard dll's came with everything else needed. There is 
a lot more work to upgrade anything under Linux. With choice comes 
complexity, and sometimes the complexity isn't welcome.

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