Re: Why are RPM's distro specific?

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On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 13:10 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> 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.

Wrong. SuSE started as German distributor of Slackware and then
gradually forked away from it.

>  Much of the layout and many of the commands
> are Red Hat inspired.
RedHat and SuSE, both have common roots: Slackware and SLS.

Ralf



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