I run 9.1 with KDE on desktop machines for a book publishing business.

I sure wish there was an easy and TOTALLY foolproof (yeah, I'm a fool) way to
go from one version to the next without doing a clean "from scratch" install.
I will have to install and/or configure:

phpMyAdmin
Apache
PHP
Crossover Office (and install Word)
Moneydance
Open Office
MySQL databases
Home dir files (yeah, should have been on own partition)
FireFox and bookmarks
CUPS printers and settings
Email and newsgroups accounts (Kmail/Knode)
Email address book
Jpilot data
fstab entries for camera and hda
Realplayer

.... and probably stuff I have forgotten. I don't know how anyone can do this
with every six-month release and still run the business (and it has to be
done on other machine(s) as well.)

I console myself saying that it wouldn't be any different with Windows.
However I believe the Mac OS-X has a easier migration path. Not sure.

I know there are so-called "methods" to upgrade with swaret and that for 10.0
P.V. published a "how to" but from what I've read, neither of these are
foolproof.. and are almost as time-consuming in getting the xxx.conf.new
files changes into the "old" files.

I'd sure like to run the "new stuff" but who (running a business) as time to
upgrade? And with the fear of being slammed, is there a distro that DOES have
a slam-dunk upgrade methodology? Debian with apt-get maybe? Just curious.
Slackware has been very stable for us (compared to Mandrake) and we would not
leave for light and transient reasons.

Al C.