Hey! Just got my eager hands on a 9.1 set. I tried the normal installation on a "test drive" hdd, just to check it. The install was ok, but not without a few issues. The system was taking too long to load kde, after copying and installing rpm's, so I rebooted. After reboot, in kde, the system kinda freezed a bit and then exited kde. It was displaying disk activity, but endless. Rebooted again. After a few tweaks, the "9.1 test drive" is okay, and running smooth. The machine has a lot of hardware in it, so I was hesitating a bit: two hdd (80 and 40G), dvd drive, cdrecorder, tv card, two ethernet cards, sblive card, geforce card, no onboard stuff. But 9.1 is dealing fine with these folks, now.
My questions are:

1. The update (instead of new install) process is ok? Reliable? Won't it trash the whole current 9.0? Notice that my installation has a lot of software in it.

2. Will the update touch - in any way - my software installed via compiling? I removed the orignal 9.0 xine (couldn't play dvd's) and installed a new one. So with mplayer, via compiling. Will they an their deps be kept?

3. Can I keep my old kde 3.1 home configs (the dir .kde)? Will kde 3.2 read it ok and use it?

4. Is there a cpu temp monitor for gkrellm in 9.1? I couldn't be able to find it. The current gkrellm version has disabled cpu temp monitors. Just like my 9.0.

5. Are you guys enjoying 9.1? Is there a noticeable difference in peformance?



Thank you all!