Re: [opensuse-factory] [suggestion] YaST-update should NOT refresh all installation-sources when called by opensuse-updater
On Sunday 22 April 2007 07:09, Alberto Passalacqua wrote: IMHO, the feeling about update speed is, in a part, problem for people used to limitations and different approach in another OS. In my opinion the update speed is not unimportant. It's true you don't have to look at it and work while YaST is updating your system. But having a slow update system like the one we have at the moment makes clever solutions like delta-rpms useless. Btw, the installer takes exactly the same time to parse data when installing patches or new software, and if I need a new app to do my work, the put on another desktop technique doesn't apply. Moreover, I think the speed of the package manager in elaborating patches information should be negligible in comparison with the patches download time. This often (almost always?) doesn't happen with the current implementation. Regards, Hi Alberto, the point was that a part of the problem are our habits. They make whole situtation worse, and new users that are not used to Linux are hit the most. The parsing speed is what should be improved in 10.3, but what is faster, download or parsing, depends on Internet connection speed, internal computer I/O speed, amount of RAM and CPU speed. For example with my current Internet connection on this computer it is faster to download full size iso than download delta iso and run applydeltaiso combination. Download takes 20-30 minutes per CD and totals in 3 hours. The other option takes lesser to download, but than applydeltaiso runs for approximately one hour per CD. I use slower disk for download archive and that makes situation worse, but applydeltaiso process runs quite nice in background and I use Internet without problems. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] [suggestion] YaST-update should NOT refresh all installation-sources when called by opensuse-updater
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 03:11:05PM +0200, Alberto Passalacqua wrote: The parsing speed is what should be improved in 10.3, but what is faster, download or parsing, depends on Internet connection speed, internal computer I/O speed, amount of RAM and CPU speed. In general, our libzypp developers are evaluating speed ups and download size increases for some time already. http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Refactoring has some notes on the current evaluations and work. Ciao, Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] [suggestion] YaST-update should NOT refresh all installation-sources when called by opensuse-updater
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Schlander schreef: Den Sunday 22 April 2007 09:59:47 skrev Marcus Meissner: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 12:06:54PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Sun 22 Apr 2007 05:38:30 NZST +1200, Martin Schlander wrote: But the problem is not the downloading of updated metadata, which usually takes a few seconds tops. Uhhm, you're talking about downloading the updates/repodata/*.xml.gz files? For the 10.2 updates that's about 13MB currently. I'd be very interested to hear how you download that over a dialup at a realistic 3kbyte/s in a few seconds tops. Its more like 5 MB. others.xml.gz is not downloaded usually. Also the update source is not relevant here is it? When opensuseupdater tells you that updates are available the update repo has already been refreshed hasn't it? So it won't need to download new metadata again at YOU startup. The problem is the other repos that most people add, Packman and Guru etc. - and this is an even smaller download from what I can tell. But of course any download on dialup is big. I wonder how many people do Windows-update or apt-get upgrade on dialup for comparison. I think for most users parsing metadata takes way longer than downloading updated metadata. At least for me parsing metadata is perhaps 80% of package manager startup time. I do have comparatively high bandwidth I guess (2 mbit), but it's not like I'm on 100 mbit. And I also have an above average machine I guess, and still parsing takes sooo long. Maybe it would still make sense to not update all repos at YOU startup if that would be safe. But I still think many people confuse the metadata-parsing with repo-updating. And I maintain that parsing is the biggest culprit. I support this, and i notice that the cpu consumption is enormous on start, and on and after finishing, i am forced to stop working, because the reaction-speed for my keybord has reduced to -20 secs. ( i mean that a keystroke is visible after 20 secs.) I mean i would realy don't care, if i would not notice any of the update/grades, but they are dominant, and force me to stop working, which is, at least to me, very disturbing... - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-01-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 release 45.4 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGK25cX5/X5X6LpDgRApieAKDEF3WeS5/bj7dtOSLPlu4OPsyvqACgriSJ 7vrfY6kvnYU65zMM0sJdUy0= =Yw5C -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] [suggestion] YaST-update should NOT refresh all installation-sources when called by opensuse-updater
Hello, on Sonntag, 22. April 2007, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Sun 22 Apr 2007 20:28:37 NZST +1200, Martin Schlander wrote: Also the update source is not relevant here is it? When opensuseupdater tells you that updates are available the update repo has already been refreshed hasn't it? So it won't need to download new metadata again at YOU startup. Indeed. What I mainly object to is the repeated downloading of 98% of old metadata and only 2% of new, because everything is packed up in the same binary file. A more intelligent design would be 50 times faster... What about using zsync? I never used it myself, but what I read on http://zsync.moria.org.uk/ looks very promising :-) BTW: Volker, could you please provide some info in bug 188068? (Your patch breaks pin in another way...) Regards, Christian Boltz -- Wir sind vom LinuxTag e.V., Widerstand ist zwecklos. Sie werden assimiliert. [Henning Heinold - LinuxTag fortune] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Announcement: Software management for openSUSE
On Sunday 22 April 2007 11:19:19 Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: Jiri Srain escribió: opensuse-updater-kde opensuse-updater-gnome I thought the same names too. My 2 chilean pesos too ( in € ) -- Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett Novell :: SUSE RD, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] [suggestion] YaST-update should NOT refresh all installation-sources when called by opensuse-updater
On Sunday 22 April 2007 08:11, Alberto Passalacqua wrote: The parsing speed is what should be improved in 10.3, but what is faster, download or parsing, depends on Internet connection speed, internal computer I/O speed, amount of RAM and CPU speed. In my opinion the evaluation of how the update system work should be independent from users' habits. We can't think to change their habits, it's a fight lost before it starts. It's easier to change the software, or the user will change it ;-) :-) User experience is master. You know by your self when you are in user role. Habits ... they are part of problem and part of solution. I agree that changing habits is harder task than to rewrite software, but when you know that some solution is more comfortable and productive, than it is time to take on harder to solve part of equation, and that is what my post was about. Of course I did my reasoning thinking to a user who works always on the same machine and with the same connection. That user would notice a huge increase of the update/install time in more recent versions of suse than in past ones (9.3, 10.0), without any advantage for him. Yes, and hopefully opposite direction of changes in 10.3. The download time is related to the connection speed, and the user is accustomed to his connection, so he will accept a long download time if he has a slow connection. On the contrary he will not accept a long parsing time, because it wasn't there before, it's not there in other distributions and in other operating systems. When developing a new software, the key point is to think as the user thinks, and not to try to find excuses to justify problems, or workarounds to make users accept the status quo. Agree. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse-factory] GNOME?
Hi, I am a relatively new openSuSE user (since December 2006) and I am primarily a KDE user, though I dabble a bit with GNOME ever now and then. I've been using Linux for some years now and I must say that I was very impressed with openSuSE's KDE. It was very easy to set up and by just adding packman and suser-guru I was in business. After a little while I figured I'd give GNOME a shot. It looked very nice and polished from the screenshots I'd seen. I am also a huge fan of tango. After a few days of playing with GNOME I had encountered so many annoyances that I decided to switch back to KDE. But I wanted to express my grievances. First, out of the box the fonts are horrible. Why are they so ugly by default in GNOME but nice in KDE? It's very easy to set this up in GNOME but what about newbies and businesses that don't want to spend the time doing all of this? Second, multimedia support is abysmal. I followed several wikis and tried helix-banshee but banshee just wouldn't work properly. Now I think it's important that if I don't have mp3 support out of the box that it's relatively easy to obtain. After I struggled through segfault after segfault I decided that I would never get banshee working properly. So my question is why isn't there an option to get a fully functioning banshee that works (not helix-banshee) like the amarok version in packman? Also I don't want RealPlayer on my laptop ... no thanks! Third, beagle integration and SLAB are very bad. Again the beagle integration in KDE is terrific and kickoff works wonderfully but beagle in GNOME and SLAB are just horrendous. Why is SLAB such a hog? Why is beagle more of a hog in GNOME than KDE? This is just a few of my grievances. Of course ZMD was a pain but I know that is no longer going to be installed by default. I'm just wondering where the love for GNOME is? I have to admit that if I really wanted a nice GNOME distro I'd be choosing another distro (Ubuntu). Thanks for listening and I hope that openSuSE can make as wonderful of a GNOME version in the future as their KDE version is. You guys do great work! Cheers, Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse-factory] Very nice things about openSuSE....
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, As you might know, i am allways trying new hardware with SuSE, (after first installing XP, and the firmware.(mobo-drivers) I look at the speed of windows, and get immediately annoyed by the endless updates.., the anti-spyware, virusscanner, firewall, because if you start with XP SP1, there is no firewall, and before you are able to install the protection, dataminers are allready mining.. :-( (With other words, it takes much much longer to install a 'complete' windows than a complete SuSE, and is less than half as enjoyable. ;-) (I did not try Vista, so i can not compare it..but don't let us spoil the fun!!) - -- Than the real Fun begins: I format the disk, - -- (to get rid of Windows, is allready feeling good..) I DO NOT WANT TO OFFEND ANYBODY. IT IS JUST MY OPINION, AND I AM ENTITLED TO HAVE AN OPINION, SO ALL OF YOU...: (restecp: Ali G in da House) - -- And then: Start fresh with SuSE... (feels just great to have no windows onboard!!!, finaly got rid of it :-) And installing SuSE is happily grinning...Real Fun. Very smooth, and beautifull from start to end, without firmware, working perfect, (hardware detection is realy allmost perfect...except 3D on onboard g-cards..) This is just great! (got a retail DVD as a gift for helping Debug a little, that just feels very good!) Inserting the DVD, and you're OK.. here we GO! You can configure just about everything you want!!! (tried LVM this time, very simple and cool..) When you are completely happy, you start to install... All pkgs you have choosen are visible while installing: great, love that! (it is not bad to have to install some codecs lateron...) Than fine-tuning the sys as far as possible, ...downloading some nice icons from paolinoland.it, a nice splash from Sean Parsons, some nice wallpapers for the 8 desktops, adjusting the window'dressing', and.allright. I realy love it! I think if the way and time to update is worked out completely, it is the best Linux distro around... ( and i have tried and use(d) several..) from one, allmost satisfied user ;-) - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-01-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 release 45.4 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGK8DPX5/X5X6LpDgRAlaaAKDbG8g4DFkrSeZBUJQXW8+W7AxUOgCfcsYc Pe0cN0DLjpG2jDn5HjDFsC8= =LlSj -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] [suggestion] YaST-update should NOT refresh all installation-sources when called by opensuse-updater
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:16:12AM +1000, Horst G?nther Burkhardt III wrote: Uhhm, you're talking about downloading the updates/repodata/*.xml.gz files? For the 10.2 updates that's about 13MB currently. I'd be very interested to hear how you download that over a dialup at a realistic 3kbyte/s in a few seconds tops. Well, Herr Kuhlmann, have you ever considered that the average dialup user wouldn't be stupid enough to try applying remote updates over his link? Unless he was incredibly desperate not to have his Apache server hacked XD Almost ALL computers these days have a broadband connection of some form. Yes, I'm not proud that I used a 33.6k modem up until January 19 2006, but one of the first things i did on my broadband link was download a new distro (i'd been using Fedora Core 4, and as you can imagine it traumatised me for life.) - There's just NO excuse to use a dial-in narrowband data link for anything more than ssh these days. Cheap and plentiful data pipes are available in every developed country of the world - EMBRACE THEM! :D by the by, 13MB on my cable modem? it's demolished in one minute. Hmm, apart from being rather arrogant this answer is also excessivly ingorant of security matters because, what is says boils down to if you are sitting behind a small bandwidth connection (GPRS, modem, ISDN, UMTS) it's OK to connect to the internet but don't download (security) patches. It also fails to take into account users that have to pay for the volume that they use. While it may well be worthwile to download (and pay for the volume) the delta-rpms to have a properly secured Suse the question is: Why should I pay multiple times that volume just to know that my system needs/doesn't need patches. I think it is good practice to check for patches once per day and when comparing the download volume to the checking overhead, the current situation looks bad. In my case, I have a limit of 100 MB per month, after that the megabytes become rather expensive. If I'm on business trips for two weeks, then I'll use up almost all of that volume just to do the checks for updates. Not a very nice solution. ciao Joerg -- Joerg Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
