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Microsoft puts Windows Updates on a diet with 'differential downloads'

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Re: Ummm

> Do any Linux distributions do it that way? Hmmm, apart from paid Red Hat / SuSE. Everything else (CentOS, Debian, *buntu, etc) retrieves the latest package list from a mirror site, compares that to the local install, then pulls down only the outdated bits.

This is wrong in so many points that I do not know where to start. From how delta packages actually work? Or in which distros they work? Or...

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