Conectiva return?!

Posted May 26, 2015 13:49 UTC (Tue) by higuita (guest, #32245)
Parent article: The end for Mandriva

When Mandrake acquired Conectiva (and merged it) i saw the end of a great distro. Maybe now it can reborn.

Conectiva was big in South America and while less known in the USA and Europe, it was as good or even better than redhat,mandrake or suse.

Conectiva return?!

Posted May 26, 2015 15:39 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Conectiva had apt-rpm, which made life a lot easier for RPM distro users (people had apt-rpm repos for RedHat / Fedora). This spurred RedHat into adopting yum and working on it, to provide a similar ability to be able to easily search for and install a package + all its dependencies (though, incredibly slower in its early days).