Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 10:01, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:20:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 20:28, Terry Hancock wrote:
> > > It occurs to me that that might very well be a near-ideal and possibly
> > > planned outcome. If I were running Red Hat, I would probably think
> > > so. No need to scent conspiracy theories -- it's not a bad approach
> > > to transition: gives plenty of time for the two to grow towards a standard
> > > (e.g. the LSB stuff), and then make the transition smooth for the end user.
> >
> > That would be a possible theory if Debian & RH both use the same
> > package manager. Now, if RH wants to admit to the error in it's
> > ways and move to dpkg/apt/deb, it could be an enterprise version
> > of Libranet, and, since it charges for updates to multiple systems
> > (the RH Network), it would be a lot like Lindows!
> Well you're talking about the use of apt, Fedora used apt-rpm for
> package distribution. I don't know what they're doing now but I guess
> they'll switch to RHN cause that's what the fedora.redhat.com website
> says. A bad move to a closed distribution model IMHO.
Sounds like Lindows...
> Sven
So, *you* are the cause of the latest virus!
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