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On Monday January 29 2007 18:28, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
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> 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. 

-- 
Russ
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