On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 14:31 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Aaron Konstam <akonstam <at> sbcglobal.net> writes: > > On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 02:13 +0700, Strong wrote: > > > But I've heard it is not an rpm-based one, is it? > > It uses apt-get. > > You're comparing apples and oranges here. apt-get is not an alternative to RPM, > it can actually be used with RPM too (see apt-rpm). What Ubuntu is using > instead of RPM is dpkg, the Debian package manager. APT can be compared to YUM, > not RPM. > You are of course right. apt-get serves the same purpose as yum not rpm. But the point I was trying to make is that Ubuntu is not based on rpm installs, but as you point out there are cross-platform processors like apt-rpm. -- ======================================================================= The world is coming to an end--save your buffers! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
