On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:15:30 -0400, Fernando Parra <gato2...@yahoo.com.mx> wrote:
Well the ball is on the air. The Mageia Server should be a Rolling Ligth distro, yes or no?
The problem I've experienced with the current Mandriva release cycle is with one friend, who has a slow system. It took 13 hours to go from 2010.0 to 2010.1, even though (I'm guessing) the bulk of the files being downloaded were identical (except for the release number, and date of build), to what he already had. The same upgrade only took a couple of hours, on my system. He has a faster internet connection, but a much slower computer. I thought the faster download would be more important than the speed of the system, so I mistakenly gave him a 4 hour guesstimate. I'm not a pc developer, so I don't know why things are being done the way they are, but expecting a user to spend half a day updating, every six months (or year), really annoys new users. My background is ibm 370 asm, cobol, pl/1, fortran, mark iv, roscoe, tso, db2, ims dc/db, etc. I know enough c, perl, python, etc., that I can sometimes figure out where the problem is, (when submitting bug reports), but I don't know enough to put together rpm packages, or where to start, to learn how to do so. Regards, Dave Hodgins
