Upgrade from 8 to 9: Yes or no ?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 13:59:21 +0200,
  Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You can share /home just fine, but better create separate user
> accounts for the different distribution releases.

You might occasionally get burnt by selinux labelling changing for /home
by doing this. I would expect this to be pretty rare, but something you
want to keep in the back of your mind.