update packages or reinstall

[Glen Barber]

Gary Hartl said: 
> 
> I'm considering just wiping the system clean and starting from scratch to
> say either 6.4-release or 7.0 release.
> 

For what it's worth, I've (so far) had 50% luck with 7.1.  My home server runs nothing special, mostly development stuff and the occasional X session.  I attempted to upgrade to 7.1 from 6.3-STABLE yesterday, and to make a long story short, am now running 6.4-RELEASE.  

If you do decide to go with 7.1, I'd test drive it first, before committing that machine to that OS.  So far, I've had no problems with 6.4-* on any of my machines.

Regards, 

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Glen Barber