Aaron Konstam <akonstam <at> sbcglobal.net> writes: > On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 02:13 +0700, Strong wrote: > > But I've heard it is not an rpm-based one, is it? > It uses apt-get. You're comparing apples and oranges here. apt-get is not an alternative to RPM, it can actually be used with RPM too (see apt-rpm). What Ubuntu is using instead of RPM is dpkg, the Debian package manager. APT can be compared to YUM, not RPM. Kevin Kofler