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The new Fedora Project

The new Fedora Project

Posted Sep 25, 2003 21:14 UTC (Thu) by leandro (guest, #1460)
Parent article: The new Fedora Project

So after a long, windy road, the Debian fork called Red Hat starts becoming more and more its daddy... it's just like teenagers, only its crisis was a case of NIH syndrome combined with a quick-and-dirty solution to the time it took for Debian to create dpkg.


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Red Hat a Debian fork?

Posted Sep 27, 2003 23:28 UTC (Sat) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Why do you say that? They are completely separate projects, both perhaps more of a shotoff from Slackware.

Red Hat a Debian fork?

Posted Jan 6, 2004 13:48 UTC (Tue) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link]

> Red Hat a Debian fork?

Yes, RPM was created because RH didn't want to wait for Debian's process in creating dpkg.

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