Linked by John Collins on Wed 4th Jun 2003 15:23 UTC
There seem to be many reviews on Red Hat 9.0, but all seem to be written by Linux junkies who really know their stuff. What about the MS Windows Convert? They say people like the first thing they use (i.e. if you learn to drive a manual transmission, you prefer it over automatic). If this is true, how does Red Hat 9.0 introduce a novice pc user to the world of computers? I hope to answer some of those questions in this tiny review.
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...is that rpm needs to be modified to enable incremental updates. I am sure there is a lot of redundancy in downloading entire packages for upgrading.
And also that Redhat needs to arrange their updates in RHN so that a user can choose between system packages and other packages. Stuff like KDE should not be made available for normal updates. Its too big for that. As a rule, 20MB of updates should be pushing it already. 250MB should be unhear of. I am supposed to have a fast connection but am in Africa here, and that makes things particularly slow. Add the fact that it downloads one package at a time, things become unbearably slow.
Main point is, make rpm good for incremental updates, or make a new format that handles incremental updates which is also rpm compatible. 99% of the stuff we download we already have.