Re: Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 09/13/2009 05:27 AM, Phil Meyer wrote:

> Those who prefer BSD enjoy working on Debian or Debian based distros
> (Like Ubuntu) and provide base level tools and administration likely to
> please the BSD centric crowd.  The problem is that BSD and SYSV5 both
> had very rudimentary packaging tools, with the SYSV5 pkg tools being
> best of class for the time.
> 
> I don't mean to create revisionist history here, just point out that
> after Linux became popular, as in usable, the package management issue
> came front and center, and the two camps remained divided.
> 
> The BSD camps chose deb (for the most part) and the SYSV5 camps went
> with RedHat's package manager, rpm.
> 
> It is still that way.

Debian just switched to Upstart, the same init system used in Fedora for
the last few releases, FYI.

Rahul

-- 
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

[Index of Archives]     [Current Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Yosemite News]     [Yosemite Photos]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Tools]     [Fedora Docs]

  Powered by Linux