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| 1111194 | 2010-06-19 03:10:00 | with windows it was turned on after an advisory told me to, it was off before. then i wasn't aware it was downloading the stuff until i saw my router's lights. 1GB gone of my 3GB cap in the first day, lol. videos streaming in my experience can tax 250MB per hour - tracked via my usage signon. One of the Linux (ubuntu) I got had that -- run the updates took quite a while after the original, all seemed well, then the following day away they went again, was ok for a day or so, then more updates, more than what Windows does ??? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1111195 | 2010-06-19 03:32:00 | One of the Linux (ubuntu)...then more updates, more than what Windows does ???Yep - most large, unstable distributions (or bleeding edge distros, although they're not always the same thing) such as Ubuntu will inevitably pull down a significant amount of update traffic; often considerably more than Windows Update. This can be for any or several of the following reasons: The updates are for every program on the system, not just for the OS core. If you're running an unstable distro such as Ubuntu, there will be a huge number of bugfix updates. If you're running a bleeding-edge system, there will be a huge number of feature updates (which often imply bugfixes too - bleeding-edge software hasn't yet been tested as thoroughly as the stable stuff has). If you're running a rolling distro of any kind (e.g. Gentoo), then improvements and bugfixes are released on a constant basis, rather than following any kind of overriding release cycle. Note that even a stable rolling distro will see more update traffic than an equivalent distro that follows a release cycle. A good contrast is something like Debian Stable. This distro is extremely well tested prior to release, and is released periodically as a new version (i.e. it follows a release cycle, albeit a relatively unscheduled one). As a result, update traffic for this distro is extremely low, and consists almost entirely of bugfixes*. *Unless you have some kind of third-party or backports repository you're pulling from. |
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| 1111196 | 2010-06-19 03:57:00 | My laptop is asking for 685mb of updates for Vista, It ain't going to ever happen. | Metla (12) | ||
| 1111197 | 2010-06-19 07:35:00 | On the topic of updates chewing through bandwidth... My father's partner got a new laptop about a week ago. First thing I did - windows update. Then Firefox. All in all, there were three rounds of win updates. Remember, this is with me selecting every update except for office 2007 (which was uninstalled, along with norton). All up, I think it downloaded about 2Gb worth of updates. Thank god for big time! |
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