[Gllug] Recommended distro

[Nick Richards]

> Yeah, it's grabbing packages and headers from the Net that takes the
> most time; although, when installing a large number of packages, I've
> seen it take several minutes calculating dependencies (on an Athlon XP
> 2100 w/ 512Mb).  Of course, that's not something one does very often and
> for day-to-day updates it's fine.

Note that the newish yum 2.1 that comes with fc3 is *significantly*
quicker than older yum's, not least because it would seem they're
reimplementing the best bits of apt's design in python. Not that
that's a bad thing of course.

Nick
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