Re: XFree86 available via yum

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> HTTP has better access times, because it only needs one port open, and
> doesn't typically have a log in procedure for anonymous access.  Even anon
> FTP still has to log in for every file (or at least for every server).
> You can definately see the difference with APT, especially on higher
> latency connections.

The big problem is that ftp doesnt permit pipelining so you can't presend
a single canned login. A lot of tools don't help it by logging in once
per file as you say