Inventing the wheel ... or the axle, differential, bearing, ....

Inventing the wheel ... or the axle, differential, bearing, ....

Posted Dec 10, 2007 4:35 UTC (Mon) by vmole (subscriber, #111)
In reply to: Inventing the wheel ... or the axle, differential, bearing, .... by AnswerGuy
Parent article: Customized and derived distributions

Their package manager by itself is not substantively different than Red Hat's RPM

Uh, dpkg and .deb predate RPM by a good bit, and were unique (in Linux distributions) at the time, with the ability to list and uninstall packages, and to express dependencies on other packages. (At least, as far as I can remember; it was certainly those features that made me choose Debian over SLS, around Debian 0.91)

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