suse update - was Re: [plug] linux on an imac

[Gavin Chester]

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 10:28 +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> Is that all? The (Novell) zen updater under SUSE Linux 10.1 gobbles
> a gigabyte of RAM/VM when it's updating. That's not fun on a
> computer with only 256MB! 

I put aside zen and yast for updates in favour of smart.  Worth a try
for many reasons other than memory use - it only topped at 5% memory
doing an update check for me on my 2GB machine <gloat> :-)

Gavin