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

[Christopher Chan]

>> 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.
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> 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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and yum is still improving too. You cannot completely write off the rpm 
system...eg: they have automatic checksum support on all files belonging 
to a package...something that the deb system does not.