What could Ubuntu learn from Fedora

[Ric_NYC]

I believe Ubuntu is the best Linux for the desktop.
That said... What could Ubuntu learn from Fedora?


There are some things I like about the new version of Fedora:

1- the default colors and icons

2- delta RPMs for updates (http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/10/ars-takes-a-first-look-under-the-hood-of-fedora-12.ars). This means that you only have to download the changes for the updated packages and not the entire package (Can that be done in Ubuntu?)

[Keyper7]

1- the default colors and icons

This is completely subjective.


2- delta RPMs for updates (http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/10/ars-takes-a-first-look-under-the-hood-of-fedora-12.ars). This means that you only have to download the changes for the updated packages and not the entire package (Can that be done in Ubuntu?)

That's quite cool. I just did some quick Googling and found this:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptSyncInKarmicSpec

I don't know how much of this spec ended up being implemented, but it does include using apt-sync by default in the future if everything goes well with testing.

[yabbadabbadont]

I know that SuSE had a delta rpm update option many years ago. It's nice to see that is still being used.

[xir_]

optimize for i686 like version 12 will be.

come up with a delta version of apt (but don't make it default).

[Xbehave]

delta-rpms are great on paper, in practice it depends on your bw if its worth it:
*Installing is slower
*You need a bigger cache

[autocrosser]

There has been talk about deltas for some time now--I would follow the upcoming UDS to see if it is a topic....