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Re: [SLE] a long-time Suser compares kubuntu and Suse
- From: Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:19:55 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <eccmf9$jkh$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Jon Nelson wrote:
> Even given a very fast local source, 10.1's install is still really
> quite slow (slower than 9.X and 10.0), for a variety of reasons. Some
> of those reasons include the almost unbearably long time it (the
> installer) spends parsing meta-data (ie, "adding a source"). I
> recently did a number of installations over a local LAN, with the data
> source being a local httpd and parsing the meta data took a VERY LONG
> TIME, in the range of several minutes. This on a Duron 750. Even the
> RPM installation itself (the underlying install of the rpm packages)
> is slower than it should be.
Yep, this is exactly what I've been talking about.
> The parent post makes me really want to give 10.2 a try.
Maybe wait till the first beta is out - the grouping of software
packages is being worked on and it's still a little poor in Alpha3.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
> Even given a very fast local source, 10.1's install is still really
> quite slow (slower than 9.X and 10.0), for a variety of reasons. Some
> of those reasons include the almost unbearably long time it (the
> installer) spends parsing meta-data (ie, "adding a source"). I
> recently did a number of installations over a local LAN, with the data
> source being a local httpd and parsing the meta data took a VERY LONG
> TIME, in the range of several minutes. This on a Duron 750. Even the
> RPM installation itself (the underlying install of the rpm packages)
> is slower than it should be.
Yep, this is exactly what I've been talking about.
> The parent post makes me really want to give 10.2 a try.
Maybe wait till the first beta is out - the grouping of software
packages is being worked on and it's still a little poor in Alpha3.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
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