[PLUG] Linux distro recommendation as a replacement for SuSE
Dan Young
danielmyoung at gmail.com
Sat Nov 4 23:01:16 UTC 2006
On 11/4/06, Carlos Konstanski <ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com> wrote:
> If a distro migration decision is to be based upon the updater utility,
> then perhaps it is time to rethink the entire problem. RPM is
> inherently inferior to apt.
apt and rpm are not analogous.
dpkg:rpm (source and binary package format)
apt:yum (dependency resolver / downloader)
> Some good reasons for making this claim can
> be found here:
>
> http://chris.quietlife.net/?p=152
That post is from 2003 and has many gripes that no longer apply.
--
Dan
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