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

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Wed May 13 06:02:12 UTC 2009


> 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.
>

Are you aware that RPM is the specified package format of the Linux
Standard Base:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base

By the way, here is a nice comparison of DEB, RPM, TAR and other
packaging formats:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080123072546/http://kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp/

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Dotan Cohen

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