Re: ESR: Goodbye Fedora

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On Wed February 21 2007 6:02:29 pm M. Fioretti wrote:
> * failure to maintain key repositories in a sane, consistent
> state from which upgrades might actually be possible.
>
> * Adding another layer of complexity, bugs, and wretched
> performance with yum

Well, here's an immediate 'hot-off-the-press' report for you:
For some reason, Smart has been having a problem on this 
particular machine for a couple to three weeks. I hadn't had 
time to really dig in - the symptoms were that it would take 
forever to refresh itself, there would be very long delays in 
the process, so many CPU cycles being used that screen re-draws 
were being inhibited, and so forth; Effectively, I haven't been 
able to complete an update with Smart for nearly 3 weeks. Today, 
I fired up Yumex and ran a system update - this hadn't been done 
in some 2-3 weeks due to the Smart problem; Yumex found 153 
packages that needed updating, one of which was Smart, and went 
throught the process without a hitch in about 35-45 minutes. 
Generally, I upgrade my machines every day - I run four Fedora 
boxes right now. Apart from the above described issue, I almost 
never experience problems with yum or with repos except for the 
occasional delays in propagating to the mirrors. Now, I don't 
run the exact same mix of packages that ESR does, and so, his 
experience could be different - but, I would add that I'm one of 
those who fought for the "Everything" install option, and tend 
to run my machines with a lot of software installed - so, I'm 
not sure what he's talking about. Since today's update, Smart 
has now started working properly, again. 

I've also tried 40+ other distros and have several running right 
now. They all have issues. 

I tend to lean against the hard-nosed "only-free-software" 
position, but, I respect it and don't find it so difficult to 
work around. 

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, Md, USA

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