2007/11/30, Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Pup and yum on F7 are a pain. Often when the message is for 10 new > updates I do it in a terminal. Either way it is quite slow. But it works. > > Ubuntu uses apt-get and a GUI thing like Pup but it works much > better. I have no desire to do it in a terminal. When I set it up the > first time it took 90 updates. I was amazed how fast it went and zero > problems. There are several things not Fedora or normal Ubuntu > applications that I MUST have. On Ubuntu they are all a simple # apt-get > install and they do all the work bringing in the necessary libs and such. > > At this time I can say the Ubuntu update system is very superior to > Pup and yum used on Fedora. I suggest Fedora look close at Ubuntu and > see how to get it working here. > > Both systems use Gnome and that makes both look VERY similar. A nice > feature of Ubuntu is that that mount all the Linux systems on boot to > /mnt and you can then, of course transfer things from the Fedora systems > to Ubuntu. Or the reverse. > > Ubuntu is based on Debian and the place that files go and do are odd > to a Fedora user. There is no grub.conf and /etc/fstab is a real MESS! I > am not sure my Fedora /home directory can be used with Ubuntu, but I > will try just for fun. > > Karl > > -- > > Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI > Linux User > #450462 http://counter.li.org. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > I am using a yum plugin axelget, which use axel to download rpms. Axel use multithread to download files from the server, it is about 5 times faster. When I downloading, the speed is about 40KB/s~200KB/s. And indeed it is not as fast as in Ubuntu. But it is enough for me.
