On 2003.05.05 08:55 Dustin Puryear wrote: > At 11:27 PM 5/4/2003 -0500, you wrote: > >the upgrades through a network, if I were inclined to use them. I trust > >these tools, they are efficient and painless. On the Windoze side, I've > >heard of 500MB service packs, is that true? Yet they fail to fix all the > >bugs and they never can do as good a job as the distributed effort of free > >software. > > $ ncftpls -l ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/ | \ > > awk 'BEGIN { X=0 } { X=X+$5 } END { print X } ' > 423031617 > > $ ncftpls -l ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/ | > \ > > awk 'BEGIN { X=0 } { X=X+$5 } END { print X } ' > 137523201 > > > --- >
Yeah, Yeah, Red Hat did say they wanted to be the Microsoft of the Linux world didn't they? They still fall short when you consider that those packages can be cached locally and used by multiple machines. Those 400 megs for version 8 are still less than the 500 meg single service pack I'd heard of for windoze, and I trust Red Hat more than I trust Microsoft. I like the Debian way better.
