Re: TW - 2615 packages to upgrade, 17 new, 4 to remove, 1 to change vendor - flawlessly

32 or 64 bit?

.  I have some old dell desktops and a new dell 5501 laptop which the
debate continues TW or Leap currently testing Ubuntu as I was over
allowance with COX and in a hurry to kill off monthly payware Win 11 it
came with.

CWSIV

CWSIV

On Fri, Aug 7, 2026 at 10:22 PM David C Rankin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> TW is pretty impressive:
>
>    And this is one of the larger updates I've had, I had skipped the
> 20260803 7.1.5 kernel update on this box, and just went 0724 to 0806.
> Though I'm not sure time between updates has much impact on size, the
> update prior was from 0609 to 0724 and it was a bit smaller than this
> one. This one was impressive and worked like a champ:
>
> 2615 packages to upgrade, 17 new, 4 to remove, 1 to change vendor.
>
> Package download size:
>                |      3.57 GiB  overall package size
>     773.7 MiB  |  -   2.81 GiB  already in cache
>
> Package install size change:
>                |     12.41 GiB  required by packages that will be installed
>     892.0 MiB  |  -  11.54 GiB  released by packages that will be removed
>
>      Note: System reboot required.
>
> Backend:  classic_rpmtrans
>
>    And after a few minutes of downloading, validating, installing,
> building the G04 driver, like magic the reboot to the 7.1.6 kernel
> worked without a hitch.
>
>    Kudos to the TW devs, this is one smooth rolling release.
>
> --
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>