Upgrade from 8 to 9: Yes or no ?

[Tom Horsley]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:42:43 +0100
Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:

> One slight problem with this is that if one shares /home
> between the two versions this could conceivably cause problems.

True. I usually use a fresh /home during testing, and only point
to the old /home once I'm sure I want to switch. If I find problems
after the switch, I can usually fix them by renaming any
old ~/.<whatever> files or directories (if I can figure out
which ones are causing the problems :-).