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