[Ambassadors] Arguments needed

John Mackay mackay3 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 16:14:02 UTC 2007


The same reasson download managers split one file in several pieces and
download all of it simultaneously.

On 2/14/07, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 16:14 +0100, Thomas Canniot wrote:
> > Le mercredi 14 février 2007 à 08:19 -0600, Rex Dieter a écrit :
> > > Thomas Canniot wrote:
> > >
> > > > Trying to promote Fedora and the use of yum (instead of third
> manager
> > > > like smart)
> > >
> > > Why (yum vs smart)?
> > >
> >
> > smart seems faster from his point of view, downloading packages for
> > example, as it is able to download many packages at the same time.
>
> I don't use smart, so can anyone explain this part to me?  Is there a
> difference between downloading 3 packages at 100KB/sec each, and
> downloading 1 package at 300KB/sec?
>
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