[ILUG] From the register. XP machine rooted in 200 seconds.

[Gareth Eason]

	This was debated briefly on #ilug...

	In brief, please compare like with like:

	Windows provides you with an OS + a few utilities.

	Linux (FC3 in your example) most likely provided you with a compiler or 
two, graphics editing packages, audio playback and recording packages, 
an office suite, servers for DHCP, DNS, SSH, mail, web, ntp, nntp, etc. 
(as well as the clients, which windows provides you with some of...), 
full multi-lingual documentation for a lot of this (windows has 
different version for different languages), etc., etc., etc. - all of 
which would have been updated as well as the kernel and OS (about the 
only significant components windows provides you with.)

	So yeah, I'm personally not surprised that the FC3 updates are larger 
in size than some windows XP service pack. RedHat have a LOT more ground 
to cover.

	Best regards,
	-->Gar


Liam Bedford wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:13 +0000, kevin lyda wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:05:49PM +0000, Ken Gilmour wrote:
>>
>>>intimidate some people, however windows update (automatic or manual)
>>>has a new thing called BITS (i think) which allows you to download
>>>bits of the service pack at a time and resume it later on. So you
>>>could technically do it in the background over a few connections
>>>without even knowing it... but still it would make everything even
>>>slower which you don't want on a dialup
>>
>>and while it trickles down, your machine gets broken into.
>>
> 
> similar to the X hundred megabytes for FC3 which has been out, for what,
> 2 weeks?
> 
> at least 30 packages were updated on a machine I installed over the
> network (why didn't it install the latest versions during the network
> install?).
> 
> total for the fedora core 3 i386 updates directory: 876608
> 
> obviously, you're not going to install all of them.
> 
> L.
>