F15 - 640MB RAM Requirement Issue

[Kam Leo]

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
> On 05/28/2011 07:30 AM, Freak Trick wrote:
>> Thanks! For the reply. But yum itself is horribly slow on F15 beta.
>
> This may not help now, but you should install the presto and
> fastest-mirror plugins for yum.  Presto only downloads delta-rpms (They
> only contain what's changed since the last time they were updated.) and
> rebuilds the rpms on the fly.  This can save at least 80% of your
> download time.  Between the two of them, they can make updating your
> system much faster.

It's a trade-off. If you have a fast internet connection but a slow
processor you might actually be better off downloading the full rpm
instead of waiting for your processor to decompress and/or merge the
deltas.