From: "Geo" 

"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:44b4919f$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> mmmkay. updating your system from online repositories has been fairly
> std for some time now in the world of linux.

Yes, I know, it's almost as easy as WU and a whole lot safer. What caught
my eye in this thread was the volume of updates, someone had mentioned
700mb in 3 months.

> Yup you hook up to a "security updates" repo. Usually a
distro has this
> as a specific repo or their "update" is just security fixes.

How are these repositories for speed?

How often (number of times in 3 months) does an update require a reboot?

Are all the pieces (OS, Browser, apache, etc) updated from the same
repository or do you have to go to different places to get the different
pieces updated? Limited to what's on the CD, I would assume separate
downloaded apps require you to go back to the author's site.

Geo.

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