[Cialug] RedHat's site

[Dave Weis]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, David Champion wrote:
> 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.

yum in newer versions has automatic mirror locating and will try other 
mirrors from the list if the one you connected to doesn't have what you 
need. It works very slick.

> 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
>> 
>> 
>
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