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Why is IPS so slow? I’m trying to do image-update a fresh install of b131 to b134 which is about 784MB in 90054 files, I get between 20 and 100Kb/sec, so far it’s taken two hours to download 661MB and it’s not my bandwidth as I always get 500-800KB/sec from Sun related websites. Of course the Sun site could be overloaded, or the webserver is bogged down 24/7/365 (I’ve never had an update go even remotely fast), so it must be down to the fact that it downloads individual files and not chunks or packages. Once it’s finished it’ll of course have to install the files and do it’s “magic”, turning the whole update event into a half-day job. I’m sorry, but that’s pathetic!
I don’t see the advantage of download individual files unless it’s capable……
Please bring back SXCE until OpenSolaris is a bit more mature.
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IPS SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bring back the King of Solaris: SXCE
If we have to deal with a once every six month POS with not updates unless we stay with a bleeding edge dev build it would be better off to get everything in one DVD and let us remove what we don’t need. Drop Opensolaris and continue with SXCE, it should have been that way from the beginning.