On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 16:09 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > billg wrote: > > Not that I'm all that happy with FC2. I spent hours today installing > > and updating FC2 after deciding to spend sometime learning Mono. My > > impressions are the same as when I used FC1: Great distribution, > > invisible documentation, up2date is still broken, and the mirrors vary > > from bog slow at best to unresponsive. > > If you'd try using one of the yum mirrors rather than Red Hat's server, > you'd have MUCH better luck. Since the RH server is the only one in the > initial yum.conf, it gets slammed and is too busy to respond to you. > Don't blame FC1 or FC2, blame Red Hat for not putting up more servers > and load-balancing them. I doubt they will as they don't make any > money with FC. I'm on the west coast and I use the web-ster and > kernel.org mirrors a lot. Both are pretty quick. I don't know about you yum users, but using apt with a combination of download.fedora.us and ayo.freshrpms.net I'm very happy with the speed of my downloads. Of course, I also have a cron job set up to 'apt-get -d upgrade' every night (it just downloads them) so often my download time is zilch :) -- Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
