I couldn’t wait for the official Debian Lenny release because there were several packages from Lenny that I wanted right now: - Kernel 2.8.26 that includes support for my Broadcom wireless card. - KVM, so I could use it instead of VirtualBox. - Pidgin, instead of Gaim - OpenJDK, so I could replace the sun-java5-jdk that I have been using - Improved NetworkManager capabilities - Iceweasel (Firefox) 3.0.3 - Native Adobe Flash Player (swfdec-gnome) - The brand new Adoble Flash Player 64 bits So, I updated my laptop this way: 1. With the current setup, update the system # aptitude update && aptitude upgrade 2. After having an Etch distro fully updated, I changed all the references to etch or stable in /etc/apt/sources.list to lenny. My sources.list is now: # Debian lenny deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib 3. I did the dist-upgrade to lenny # aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade This downloaded 1.5GB of packages from debian repositories and after a couple of hours the upgrade was over. Now I am writing this from my shinny new Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (Lenny). BTW, the new look & feel it is pretty cool.