On Sunday 22 April 2007 07:09, Alberto Passalacqua wrote: > > IMHO, the feeling about update speed is, in a part, problem for people > > used to limitations and different approach in another OS. > > In my opinion the update speed is not unimportant. It's true you don't > have to look at it and work while YaST is updating your system. But > having a slow update system like the one we have at the moment makes > clever solutions like delta-rpms useless. > > Btw, the installer takes exactly the same time to parse data when > installing patches or new software, and if I need a new app to do my > work, the "put on another desktop" technique doesn't apply. > > Moreover, I think the speed of the package manager in elaborating > patches information should be negligible in comparison with the patches > download time. This often (almost always?) doesn't happen with the > current implementation. > > Regards,
Hi Alberto, the point was that a part of the problem are our habits. They make whole situtation worse, and new users that are not used to Linux are hit the most. The parsing speed is what should be improved in 10.3, but what is faster, download or parsing, depends on Internet connection speed, internal computer I/O speed, amount of RAM and CPU speed. For example with my current Internet connection on this computer it is faster to download full size iso than download delta iso and run applydeltaiso combination. Download takes 20-30 minutes per CD and totals in 3 hours. The other option takes lesser to download, but than applydeltaiso runs for approximately one hour per CD. I use slower disk for download archive and that makes situation worse, but applydeltaiso process runs quite nice in background and I use Internet without problems. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
