I installed Knoppix 3.7 a couple of days ago and I love it. I doubt I'll ever go back to SUSE.

I've used Synaptic to update all packages. I left it set to "Ignore" in preferences, rather than Stable, Unstable, Testing or Experimental. Does this mean that it respects each packages status when updating, whereas setting it to say, Unstable would update every installed package from the Unstable tree?

I've been doing the default upgrade rather than dist-upgrade via Synaptic. Is this the safer method?

Thanks.