[Cialug] RedHat's site

[David Champion]

My biggest gripe about Fedora is the centralized update system. Any time 
a big patch comes out, it's impossible to get them downloaded for a while.

Mandrake and Debian address this by using mirror sites. The problem with 
Mandrake is you sometimes have to change your mirrors if they decide to 
drop it, and a lot of the mirrors only carry the latest version's 
updates, so if you're a version or two back, you really have to hunt for 
someone who's mirroring the updates for it.

A bittorrent based update system would be nifty...

-dc

Anthony Jeffries wrote:
> Tom (and others),
> 
> Red Hat's up2date servers are down every Tuesday night for maintenance.
> It's normal.
> 
> On Tue, March 22, 2005 21:08, Tom Pohl said:
> 
>>Has anyone else noticed tonight that RedHat's site is down for
>>maintenance?  Does anyone know if there's a back story?
>>
>>-Tom
> 
>