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! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time." Bertrand Meyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]