I was wondering why fedora has choosen yum over apt-get

[Eric Hattemer]

Make sure you're comparing similar mirrors.  The apt that I got defaults 
to download.fedora.us, which I can get ~100K/s from.  However, yum 
defaults to redhat.com, from which I get about 500B/s.  I changed yum to 
use mirrors.kernel.org and I get close to 200K/s.  Then the header files 
downloaded within a minute or so (if I remember).  Yum doesn't report 
connection speed by default, though, and I haven't looked into whether 
it can. 

-Eric Hattemer

Kristof Vansant wrote:

>k but I still don't understand why with yum everything goes slower then with
>apt-get.
>Has apt-get better mirror support or something?
>My friend has a big apt-get sources list and yum list. Apt-get had his
>sources list in 2 minutes. Yum was still loading header files after half an
>hour.
>I can understand his frustration. What's the cause in this big speed
>difference?
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>And yes I have read http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/questions.ptml
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