Upgrade: Yes or No
 

My question is: should I upgrade(change) my actuall Mandrake 10.2 Limited Edition 2005 to Mandriva Free Editon 2006? Are there benefits for me or there are no benefits? I´m using my pc mostly just for fun and entertaiment (music games movies and internet) Or should I try another distro? Is there a better distro for this kind of activities? Anyone tried Mandriva 2006 Free Edition? The only thing I get used to and I don´t wanna give up is the sorround sound!

Yes,

You'll get rid of the butt-ugly special-edition splash screen. (If you havn't already).
No, seriously... I dont know.

When i upgraded, i noticed little change, (except the splash screen).

I use my PC for similar things to you, it seems. Though my sound is stereo...

Thanks I checked the link, but it s a lit a bit hard for me steel beeing a noob! But im going to think about it it´s intresting! I thoght about Mandriva cause I´m allready familiar with that system...

It's a good thing to "stick with the devil you know," for a while, but it is also a good thing to, at some point, ditch it and try something else. When you become familiar enough with Linux to want to "peel off the covers" and look under the hood of the thing, you will have taken a step forward .. one that Linux uniquely offers you.

Meanwhile, it is also a good thing to keep your systems continuously up-to-date.

i agree, stay upto date.

Thanks for replys! I started to download Mandriva... after that I start downloading Debiam and frend it´s going to give me Susse 10! In the meen time I tried BlackPanther OS whitch is a mandrake based linux in my native language(hungarian) pretty cool but doasen´t have amarok and wrelly looks like win xp...I skippet it for a while! But it´s good for newcommers who whish to feel the powe:) I guess there is on english version to but I´m not sure! Fo those who are intrested on this distro to, here is on ftp link ftp://ftp.blackpanther.hu/blackPanther.OS/All/ feel free to trie it!

If I upgrade to Mandriva will I lose my old settings? (ex: wine) or in my /home directory? The allready installed softwares will work or have to reinstall them? I sgoing to change my kernel to? I installed the Nvidia driver witch has recompiled the kernel, I need to repeat this after the upgrade?

I upgraded recently from Mandriva 10.2 to 2006. I decided to do a new install.

From other posts, the advice seemed to be that it is generally better to do a fresh install rather than upgrade. My /home directory was on a separate partition that I chose not to format and so all that data was retained, but I did need to reinstall and configure things like internet etc.

Suggest it might be an idea to have a go at the upgrade and see what happens, as you may not need to configure things again.

Well after all I decidet to do a new install of Mandriva 2006.. it wnt smoothly in less then 20 minutes!
Thanks to all of you who replyed to this topic...!