russbucket wrote:
On Monday January 29 2007 18:28, Bryan S. Tyson wrote: <snip>
Sadly, my test of Suse 10.2 only lasted a few days. Overall I thought it was nice, but I just could not tolerate the slowness of the package management system. Times of 30 minutes were not unusual just to add 1 new program (in my case). Every time it goes through this endless process of scanning each repository before I can even do anything. I have to go away and do something else while waiting for it to be ready to search for a new program! In Kubuntu the average time (in my case) is 5 minutes.
Package management is so fundamental, I think it does not matter how nice the rest of the distro is if its package system is not well-designed.
Bryan
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I have to agree with you about the slowness of the zmd package manager. It takes 30-60minutes to update a couple of packages. If I go in YaST and update it much faster, (same update servers in both). I noticed in YaST --> sysconfig you can make the YaST updater the default. I have not tried that yet, did you? when I update YaST I get an error everytime it tries to sync with zmd. I post a message on that earlier today. I read somewhere you can disable the zmd updater but that appears to be counter to the way SUSE is headed.I'm going to look for it again and see if it works.
My system is a 866MHZ PIII with 768MB memory and 250GB Disk for Linux and 80GB for XP which a rarely use. Worked fast with 10.0.
This pretty well details my experience. Sometimes the updater gets to 99% and the ORB goes out and the screen with the 99% stays forever, although the update completed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org