[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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