too many deamons by default - F7 test 2 live cd

[Warren Togami]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:54 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Ralf Corsepius writes:
>>  > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 14:26 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>  > > Josh Boyer writes:
>>  > >  > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 13:28 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>  > >  > > Ralf Corsepius writes:
>>  > >  > > 
>>  > >  > >  > >From my experience (I've used Fedora with both ISDN and with
>>  > >  > >  > DSL Lite), Fedora with ISDN or modem is plain unusable, with
>>  > >  > >  > "DSL Lite", the situation is "bearable", but isn't fun (an
>>  > >  > >  > openoffice update takes a working-day).
>>  > >  > > 
>>  > >  > > So don't do that, then.  Fedora doesn't require anyone to yum
>>  > >  > > update openoffice.
>>  > >  > 
>>  > >  > That isn't a particularly helpful comment. 
>>  > > 
>>  > > Look at it this way: if you really need openoffice updated, then
>>  > > update it.
>>  >
>>  > Well, then you might be able to answer why Core has replaced ca. half of
>>  > the core distro since FC6's initial roll-out if there weren't sufficient
>>  > reasons to do so?
>>
>> Sigh.  One of the advantages of Fedora is that we do frequent updates
>> so that you can be sure that bugs are fixed in a timely manner.  That
>> doesn't mean that Fedora is totally useless unless you have every
>> single update the instant it is released.
> 
>>From a user's perspective things are a bit different: 
> 
> To be able to follow the benefits of Fedora, you need sufficient
> bandwidth. If you can't cope with the bandwidth demands, you're probably
> better off using a different distro.
> 

https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/presto
Those concerned about bandwidth should help the yum-deltarpm project in 
development and testing.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com