On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, suse@rio.vg wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
suse@rio.vg wrote:
Per Jessen wrote: How so? Because I don't see how it could reach the previous level of functionality without a complete redesign. Or do you mean "vast improvement" in that it only takes four hours instead of eight?
No, even more than that. Wrt plain functionality I didn't miss much in 10.1, but speed was/is a major problem - with 10.2, an installation on even an ancient PII 450MHz is over quite quickly.
"Installation" of what? How long does it take in 10.2 to add a new source, bring up the software management, find the program you want, and install it? (and no, the new repo can't be connected to you via lan) Once it's actually downloading and installing rpms, zen/rug isn't bad, but then, fou4s can do that very well, and fou4s is a SHELL SCRIPT! (and fou4s can deal with delta rpms, which zen/rug still can't)
I'm guessing that the connection speed to the repo is key. Those people that have a really sweet connection to a good repo can use zen/rug. Those of us on the other side of the planet, not so much.
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. There are a number of other slowdowns, some easy to address, some much harder. The parent post makes me really want to give 10.2 a try. With that said, 10.1 has been just fine for me, except I can't use my external USB cd burners. I also don't use rug/zen, I use smart, and maybe that helps too. If 10.2 is better in this area.... -- Carpe diem - Seize the day. Carp in denim - There's a fish in my pants! Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@jamponi.net>