Jim Henderson wrote:
> On 10.x it did take a long time to check for updates and would bury the 
> processor as well.  My experience with it in 11.0 has been pretty good - 

Good to know.

> I do wish they differentiated between a read-only access to the database, 
> though, so you could launch package management while it was checking for 
> updates.  It's a database, after all, it should be capable of allowing
> multiple processes to access it for read-only access.

The linux file system isn't transactional, so you can't really work it 
that way. It isn't a database - it's a bunch of files, at least as I 
understand it.

>>> thing is, Mono wasn't ready for prime time yet,
>> This is a complaint? ;-)
> Well, like I said below:

That was unwarranted sarcasm, as in "isn't all of Linux not ready for 
prime time?" :-)

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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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