tlug: "Upgrading": best method?

[Howard Abbey <habbey@example.com>]

Greetings,

My installation of Red Hat 5.0, while it works, lacks many of the extras
in
newer distributions (esp. easy Japanese ability).  So I want to install 
a new RPM based distribution.  The real question is:

Does 'upgrading' work with newer RPM based Linux distributions (RH 5.1,
etc.)  Or is it still better to wipe everything (except /home) and start
clean? 
Also, in particular, would TurboLinux upgrade from RedHat?

Wiping the drive isn't a tremendously big deal for me, it just that I've 
forgotten how half of my programs were set up (mail program, PPPd, Quake 
Eraser bots, SCSI raid-0 w/ md, etc.).

wanting to the the easier way out,

Howard
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