Alright, I've been using Mandrake 9.1 for awhile now... I want to upgrade to the newest Mandrake version, but I've heard horror stories about breaking hardware, incompatible hardware, etc. Should I upgrade, or not?

I went from 9.0 to 10.1 with very little problems. But thats my experience.

Unless you have very specific hardware (prehaps with binary-only drivers that require a specific kernel) you should be safe.

I've gone from 9.1 -> 10.1 w/o any major problems. The biggest problem was after upgrading, during network startup, I got errors about "arping" and
"Error, some other host already uses address" and the network wouldn't go up. The quick solution was to edit /sbin/ifup and remove the arping lines.

You'll probably need to check your /etc files as well. The upgrade won't overwrite your old conf files but write a .rpmnew, like /etc/ssh/sshd_config.rpmnew.
And some daemons might whine a little about the old ones.

- Peder

/etc/ config files can be merged simply by running etc-update

if he doesnt have that he can urpmi it.

Alright, I'll download the ISOs today and upgrade. Thanks again for the info!