[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Thierry Vignaud thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
Mon Oct 18 12:35:49 CEST 2010


On 17 October 2010 09:56, David W. Hodgins <davidwhodgins at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem I've experienced with the current Mandriva release cycle
> is with one friend, who has a slow system.  It took 13 hours to go
> from 2010.0 to 2010.1, even though (I'm guessing) the bulk of the files
> being downloaded were identical (except for the release number, and
> date of build), to what he already had.
>
> The same upgrade only took a couple of hours, on my system.  He has a
> faster internet connection, but a much slower computer.  I thought the
> faster download would be more important than the speed of the system,
> so I mistakenly gave him a 4 hour guesstimate.

Uh?
I've updated PIII at 733Mhz with 256 to 512Mb of RAM on a 100kb/sec line
on a couple hours (let say between 2 & 6 hours)


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