Updates in Linux are, however, still a necessity and installing patches should always be a part of a regular routine for any serious Linux user (though not as often as in Windows). Having moved to China recently, it was a good choice to have a clean install of said release on my netbook. Shanghai's broadband speed is surprisingly robust despite hobbled by the Great Wall that is well known within and outside the Middle Kingdom. Aware of the existence of a strong Chinese Linux community, I expected openSUSE to have no problem accessing remote servers for the Yast update without any modification to server location. openSUSE's Yast update process has never been the fastest but I did not expect such a poor outcome on launching Yast2. openSUSE OSS, Packman, Google, and other repositories took more than hour to refresh and the whole update process went undone by a barrage of messages indicating inaccessible servers.
Reestablishing a more stable server for openSUSE update via command line is essential in China. I personally wonder if other popular distributions, such as Fedora and Ubuntu, would experience the same lengthy and unpleasant encounter when I finally run an update on those machines.
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