Downloading updates

[jim tate]

In RH9.0 I used Apt/Synaptic and everything work great, until I
installed Fedora and tryed to do the same and I get atrpms stuck in my face
 and when you try to install it, it conflicts with everything including 
it's mother.
Can apt/synaptic be used without atrpms? I had to reload my laptop because
of it.
The channel that is run by Fedora/yum, I guess RedHat has a 386 CPU running
their update server, man it's slow, is there a faster mirrior to get 
updates and
where in /etc do you make changes.

Thanks 
Jim Tate