"Jonathan D. Proulx" wrote: snip > I've never used Corel either so caveat lector, but if it's Debian > derived, can't he just edit /etc/apt/sources and do a dist-upgrade? > > This would leave the kernel in tact and let him keep all his data and > whatever frobs he likes from Corel.
Corel is a blend of Slink & Potato, mostly Slink. Corel did there own version of KDE1 to include GUI based tools for Apt-get, Samba, libaps, file manager.... A 'dist-upgrade' will break Corel KDE so if you want to keep those tools you have to upgrade package by package and watch the depends and removes. You can replace 98% (carefully) of the packages with Potato packages. Its a pain but for me there is some value in Corels tools. -- Greg Madden
