Feature changed by: Thomas Schmidt (digitaltomm) Feature #309166, revision 2 Title: Installer does IO bad at configuration stage - openFATE: Unconfirmed - Priority - Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: antornix antx (antornix) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: First and foremost you guys rock! openSUSE is nearly perfect, thank you all for this incredible Linux distro. It is pretty annoying that when you install openSUSE, when in Configuration stage it starts testing the Internet connection and also starts auto-getting the updates by default. That's time consuming and a bottelneck comparing to the rest of the installation process. The worst thing is its blocking behavior, I am suggesting that at least you should put those IO operations within a thread loop, instead of blocking the entire user interface when a download is being fetched. YaST with non-blocking/asynchronous IO will merit being numbered as YaST3! -   Use Case: You could put the option to enable this automatic behavior as a checkbox when selecting the default desktop. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Installer accomplishes its mission faster: SuSE ASAP! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309166