Distributions & updates

[Till Maas]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 08:48:24AM -0400, Fred Walker wrote:

> Because of this I would like to make a suggestion.
> When a new Distribution is released I get the DVD with everything on it.
> The problem is after the install and upgrade the new Distribution looks
> to the repositories for up dates.  This is fine if you have some form of
> HI-speed available.  When you don't it is an issue.  It can take days
> for the new updates to down load.

Where do you get the DVD? If it is a commercial shop, maybe they might
also provide you with updates discs if you ask.

There is also the free media project in Fedora, maybe they know someone
that can help you:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia

Also you might look for a local linux user group, maybe you can the
updates there.

Also for faster updates you might increase the metadata_expire for the
fedora repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo to something like forever,
because it should not change and you do not need to re-download it every
seven days. And in case you do not use it, the yum-presto plugin will
reduce the amount of download data for updates if you update regularly.

Regards
Till
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