The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micky$oft go bankrupt?

Steven Susbauer steven at too1337.com
Wed May 13 00:22:14 UTC 2009


On Tue, 12 May 2009 19:07:43 -0500, Christopher Chan  
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:

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>>     I used Fedora-core and yum was an improvement over the old .rpm that
>> always needed a dozen libs to work :-)
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> Argh! Will your ignorance never end!? yum WORKS with rpm. What kind of
> packages do you think Fedora uses? SRV4? Debs? DOH! You probably think
> yum packages. I do like yum packages myself...they are what I bring to
> work just about every day to eat.
>

Yum was a great improvement over up2date, thank goodness for Yellow Dog.  
Of course, it still uses rpms, which will always give me a sour taste.




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