After the Revolution. When Martha Ballard began her diary in 1785, the Revolutionary War had been over for just a year. The states, still a confederation and almost entirely agrarian, had a total population of under 4 million.
The Yellowdog Updater, Modified (YUM) is a libre and open-source command-line package-management utility for computers running the GNU/Linux operating system using the RPM Package Manager. Though YUM has a command-line interface, several other tools provide graphical user interfaces to YUM functionality.
I'm not a proponent of Yumex or the Yum back end. I don't think that a GUI installer is important to the majority of Fedoras users so they don't have a serious GUI package front for Yum . Yum works well by its self though. I believe Yum updates the Package base every time it is used which makes it slow.