DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 192 on Fedora

[Rahul Sundaram]

Igor Jagec wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> " As such, it looks like the most interesting delivery of the upcoming 
>> release season will be coming from the Fedora project. The developers 
>> have recently extended their testing cycle by a whole month to include a 
>> fourth test release and the extent of the new features and improvements 
>> in Fedora 7 seems lengthier than those in Ubuntu or Mandriva. The 
>> merging of Core and Extras packages into one massive software 
>> repository, dramatic improvements in boot speeds as well as the yum 
>> package management system,
> 
> I can agree to all of that, except the Yum thing. I haven't noticed some
> Yum speed improvement on my Rawhide system I update every day. Yum is
> still very very slow. SmartPM is much faster, but still more buggy than
> Yum :-/

The comments are regarding the plans. Not what exists right now in 
Fedora development.

Rahul