On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:54 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > Ralf Corsepius writes: > > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 14:26 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > > > Josh Boyer writes: > > > > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 13:28 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > > > > > Ralf Corsepius writes: > > > > > > > > > > > >From my experience (I've used Fedora with both ISDN and with > > > > > > DSL Lite), Fedora with ISDN or modem is plain unusable, with > > > > > > "DSL Lite", the situation is "bearable", but isn't fun (an > > > > > > openoffice update takes a working-day). > > > > > > > > > > So don't do that, then. Fedora doesn't require anyone to yum > > > > > update openoffice. > > > > > > > > That isn't a particularly helpful comment. > > > > > > Look at it this way: if you really need openoffice updated, then > > > update it. > > > > Well, then you might be able to answer why Core has replaced ca. half of > > the core distro since FC6's initial roll-out if there weren't sufficient > > reasons to do so? > > Sigh. One of the advantages of Fedora is that we do frequent updates > so that you can be sure that bugs are fixed in a timely manner. That > doesn't mean that Fedora is totally useless unless you have every > single update the instant it is released. >From a user's perspective things are a bit different: To be able to follow the benefits of Fedora, you need sufficient bandwidth. If you can't cope with the bandwidth demands, you're probably better off using a different distro. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
