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

[Steven Susbauer]

On Wed, 13 May 2009 01:02:12 -0500, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>  
wrote:

>> 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/
>

There is nothing wrong with RPM itself, only my own personal experiences  
using the "Google" RPM package repository. I know these old issues are now  
gone, but I have not fully gotten over it. That and it always seems  
RPM-based distributions are somewhat bloated/slow. Maybe it's not a  
coincidence that RPM became the "standard" as it seems those using RPMs  
are generally the companies with the most money at the time the LSB was  
created (Red Hat, SUSE/Novell, etc).