I used up2date immediately after FC2 installtion yesterday with no problems or delays. Five packages were installed. Earlier today, I attempted to install a single package using yum: yum install <packagename>. Yum was very, very slow. If I didn't know better, as a new user might not, I would've assumed that it had crashed. Yum also began to downoad headers for several packages other than the paclage I had requested. I terminated yum before it completed. Two questions, then: 1) Is yum's unresponsiveness due to mirror load? If so, why wasn't up2date slow? Just dumb luck? Do they not look at the same repositories? 2) Why offer more than one way update a Fedora system? I'd prefer to see a single tool used for updating as well as for installing new packages. Presumably, the latter functionality could be added to up2date. (Perhaps an option to "List New Available Official Packages"). The Xandros updater provides that functionality, I believe. I'd also recommend that up2date display, by default, a short synopsis of the need and purpose of each proposed update. And, of curse, a user should never, ever, need to edit a source list to get the update tool to work.
