DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 192 on Fedora

[Igor Jagec]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Hi
> " As such, it looks like the most interesting delivery of the upcoming 
> release season will be coming from the Fedora project. The developers 
> have recently extended their testing cycle by a whole month to include a 
> fourth test release and the extent of the new features and improvements 
> in Fedora 7 seems lengthier than those in Ubuntu or Mandriva. The 
> merging of Core and Extras packages into one massive software 
> repository, dramatic improvements in boot speeds as well as the yum 
> package management system,

I can agree to all of that, except the Yum thing. I haven't noticed some
Yum speed improvement on my Rawhide system I update every day. Yum is
still very very slow. SmartPM is much faster, but still more buggy than
Yum :-/

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Igor Jagec