Is the wiki showing Chinook as the current rev? I did the Chinook to Diablo upgrade rather early, as I was eager to get the in-place upgrades. That being said; the manual upgrade process is pretty painless (I did it from a Linux system, and it is straight-forward).

You probably want to be on Diablo at this point. It's a good leaping off point for some of the debian and KDE extensions that are available -- if you're willing to wander off the "supported path".

Diablo, in addition to the newer (painless) upgrade process, has newer applications which many prefer (e.g. the mail agent), though (for me) the newer revisions of things like Canola are really where you want to be.

The ITT has lead me down some very interesting experimental paths at home (where I run Fedora based linux systems) for file service, pod/netcasts, expanding my media server, and newer interesting things I'm dealing with.

My personal advice is to definately go for the Diablo upgrade. I typically stay in the mainstream application venue (but wander otherwise) - and Diablo is definately mature enough now to be a good starting place.

Welcome to ITT. You, on occasion may wish you'd taken the blue pill, but in general will appreciate the new approach....