Marc M wrote: > RPMs are for Redhat-based distributions only,
Robert Locke wrote: > Gee, I think that might be a surprise to Suse that they are a RedHat- > based distribution....
Well, they were, originally.
Are you sure you are not thinking of Mandrake?
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/1998-Jan/0360.html
Looks to me like SuSE actually started as slackware, not RH
Much of the layout and many of the commands are Red Hat inspired.
which were often inspired by other distro's before RH - and other *nixes before Linux.
