Technical Blog of Richard Hughes

I want to download updates in the background. Does Linux have the equivalent of WIN32 BITS? BITS is a Background Intelligent Transfer Service used for downloading Windows updates in spare, low priority bandwidth.

When I do an automatic daily update yum saturates my bandwidth for a couple of minutes which makes browsing really slow. Is there a way of throttling the yum download with Linux? Thanks.

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