> On Fri 22 Jun 2007, paul at clubi.ie wrote:
>>> It takes at least ten minutes, if not a lot longer, to update a fresh
>> XP install.
>> I'm not sure what you are trying to prove,
> but as a matter of interest it took me 7 hours last night
> to "yum update" a fresh Fedora-7 installation
> on a PIII with 400MB;
> there were exactly 700MB of packages to update.
Agreed, they take comparable amounts of time to update. Silly argument.
Windows requires more reboots -- well, not really, but officially. There
are valid ways around it though... Now a minimal install of both Oses,
linux will win hands down.
Read, there is no minimal install for windoza.
Regards
Conor.
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