Last time I've reinstalled was in 2005 after a failure of Jfs (luckily I had the backup of my files), from them on I've just kept updating and upgrading. It is a couple of years, though, that some programs do not work properly, for instance Firefox (doesn't keep the correct spacing between lines, etc.), Thunderbird (in most threads doesn't show images. etc.), so I've started privileging Chromium and Evolution, but, as from about six months, the former doesn't open anymore some pages so I've installed Falkon which, as far as I know, uses the same engine as Chromium, but opens the pages that Chromium doesn't!!!
Though Linux and particularly Debian are very good in providing proper updating, I start thinking that maybe something left behind in the process, piling up during the years is creating such inconveniences, so I've decided to reinstall my Debian. I have been using "testing" since Sarge without having any major problem, but I've noticed that reinstalling is more difficult now than it used to be at the beginning of the new millennium, at that time I would have used dpkg --get-selections and in the new partition dpkg -- set-selections and afterwards I'd have copied some dotfiles but reading in various forums seems that now everything is more complicated. Is there anyone who would advise me about the best way for having in another partition a new Debian (same pkgs as I have here) and the configurations I have (for instance, I'm wary of loosing control of my home server through Xephyr which took me a lot of time to configure, obviously I can do it via ssh but it is not the same thing, etc) . Thank you in advance, Aldo :-)
