FC3 Updates

From: bonehead (sendmenospam_at_here.org)
Date: 11/23/04

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    Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:06:30 -0800

    Greetings,

    I just posted this to FedoraForum.org, but I thought there might be some
    users in this group with different opinions.

    I've recently set up FC3 on my new Dell Inspiron 8600, and I'm still
    relatively new to Fedora. A friend who has a little more experience with
    it has suggested that I should stay away from using Up2Date. His
    argument is that:

    "It's configured to go directly to redhat support which is a pay
    subscription. In the past you could register one machine and get
    downloads and updates. That is no longer the case and what they offer
    instead, yum, is slow, buggy and does mysterious behind the scenes
    Microsoft sort of stuff."

    Indeed, when I ran yum check-update it hung for about an hour, and I
    finally just gave up and rebooted, which I realize was not the wisest
    thing to do, but it didn't seem like I was getting anywhere.

    Anyway, my friend's other advice was to use apt-get and synaptic.

    Comments/suggestions?

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