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.
> But saying that Fedora *requires* broadband because only
> then can you have continuous updates is nonsense.
Your opinion.
It is.
Andrew.