[ale] FC5 updates

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Wed Aug 9 15:07:26 EDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 13:53 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I got FC5 loaded on my laptop. 
> 
> Updates suck.  I finished the standard install at 11am.  It is now
> almost 2pm and the system is still applying updates.  I believe it will
> be 3pm before it is done.  The download was not bad.  It is the actual
> updating that is sucking.  I hear the Ubuntu crowd speaking up now.....

Yes! They are whispering "Damn! Laptop hard drives sure are SLOW to be
stuck with on updates!".

It really is the hard drive bogging it down. There does seem to be a lot
hard drive work doing the upgrades on the FC (and RH and Centos) stuff.
I'm sure, updating a lib that is in use is loads of fun...
> 
> Chris
> 
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