Per Jessen wrote:
suse@rio.vg wrote:
The initial install has never been the problem.
Maybe not for you, but certainly for me. The initial install (from a local source) in 10.1 took much too long - and 10.2 has fixed that.
I won't debate you. That's something, as you say, can be fixed and has come a long way. It's much trickier to fix the remote issue.
Sure, the slowness is less than optimal, but it isn't the hour-long crash look-a-like those of us in the states trying to use repo's in Germany get.
Aren't there any useable local mirrors over on your side?
No. Local, as-in "on the local lan", of course not. I don't work for Novell, nor am I in a datacenter that has a suse mirror. Having the entire repo and updates mirrored locally is not a common occurrence. I'll get maybe 10-20 Kb/s from the remote repo's. (I'm not talking about initial install. For that, I had CD's. I'm talking about software management AFTER install.)