K3b
Just wanted to report that k3b has improved for me after installing 601 beta. I'm now burning the 603 to a cd to try it out. But when I ran k3b this time with the 601 beta, it worked better than it ever has for any installation of Mepis that I've tried and better than any other distro that I tried in the past. I don't know whether this is because of what Warren is doing with his beta releases or not. I think it is though. I think he is improving Mepis to the point that it makes some of the software programs run even better than they did before. I have done upgrades through the debian repositories since installing these betas and I haven't had a k3b upgrade come up in apt-get recently. So I really think the improvement in k3b is because of what was done in the 601 beta.
If I'm wrong, post why. But I see no other reason for k3b to be working better now than when I just had it with beta 5a's install. I hope the same can be said with 603, if so, I'll report it.
To add to this
I also want to report that the previous bug I had with firefox has been fixed with the 601 beta. I use a version of firefox that I downloaded from mozilla.org and I never upgrade it, it sits in my /home directory and this version of firefox is the same one I've used in all Mepis installations I've done. After installing 601, my browser's download manager works like it's supposed to. In all previous installations of Mepis, the download manager would not work and I had to use regular Mozilla or Konqueror whenever I wanted to download something from the web. So it's not just k3b that has improved for me, it's also firefox.
My experiance
I like the way K3b works too. I put an ISO on the desktop from DVD with its check sum file and K3b checks first and then burns. I like to run Firefox too and each upgrade I have to reload it. Synaptic doesn't find it so I have to use KPackage.
I have my firefox
installed into my /home directory, so that everytime I upgrade I can just save my /home directory and not reformat and reinstall over it. I never have to reinstall firefox or any program that I have in there. I also have mozilla browser in there too.
What I did was download the zip files for them from mozilla.org and then unzipped them in my /home directory. Mozilla comes with an installer that installs easily right into the directory of your choice (no compiling necessary) and after you unzip firefox, it's already ready for use, no installation needed.
Yes
You can upgrade just the k3b by using apt-get install k3b or synaptic or kpackage.