Apples and Oranges, this Linux system already had everything loaded on it, and was only behind a couple of months on patches, and it still took 6 hours to get everything. P4 2.6 GHz system with a 1.5 Mhz download capacity, but up2date wallowed along at 45k the whole time.
People here will have to decided weather to trust an RHCE who works with it every day or a Linux basher who claims never to allow it in his shop unless it suits him in the argument..