Thoughts and Questions On Yum, Up2Date. Etc.

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 16:37, billg wrote:
> > what?!?  slow?!?
> > 
> > is slow 700kB/s at work and 150kB/s from home?  have you tried several
> > mirrors to see what one is the fasted?
> 
> I've swapped off mirrors as necessary, I did that with FC1, too. Some
> days one is slow, the other fast.
> 
> My point was, and is, that if RedHat ever intends to sell a shrinkwrapped
> retail product they can't expect those customers to start editing config
> files in order to make their updating tool work.  If they click on an
> icon and nothing happens in 2 or 3 minutes, they'll assume it is broken.
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They do have a shrink wrapped product and it does point to a single,
consistent group of servers...it's called RHEL

Craig