On 09/13/2009 05:27 AM, Phil Meyer wrote: > Those who prefer BSD enjoy working on Debian or Debian based distros > (Like Ubuntu) and provide base level tools and administration likely to > please the BSD centric crowd. The problem is that BSD and SYSV5 both > had very rudimentary packaging tools, with the SYSV5 pkg tools being > best of class for the time. > > I don't mean to create revisionist history here, just point out that > after Linux became popular, as in usable, the package management issue > came front and center, and the two camps remained divided. > > The BSD camps chose deb (for the most part) and the SYSV5 camps went > with RedHat's package manager, rpm. > > It is still that way.
Debian just switched to Upstart, the same init system used in Fedora for the last few releases, FYI. Rahul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
