On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 19:17 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Mi, den 29.06.2005 schrieb seth vidal um 18:59: > > > > Keep in mind also that one of the principal points of differentiation > > > for distros -- substantial points -- has to do with RPM vs APT. It is a > > > difference which can carry an adoption. Each suits different people on > > > its merits and respective frictions. All's to Good. > > > > rpm vs apt? > > > > You're kidding right? I thought we had finally put this one to bed a > > while ago. > > > > okay: rpm == dpkg > > apt == yum or apt-rpm or whatever. > > > > just so we're clear. > > > > -sv > > I fully agree, Seth. It has ever been incorrect to compare rpm with apt. > On the other side it is exactly this comparison people come over with > when there is the naming of Red Hat Linux and now for a while Fedora and > Debian on the other side. Red Hat as a linux distribution is still in > the heads of many, many people (at least I can say that for people I use > to speak with here in Germany) as the "rpm dependency hell". Thats sad. > So I think it would be good if we would place yum more into the focus > when promoting Fedora. I genuinely think we should probably make the gui tools like pup and friends good enough that no one needs ever think about the name of the commands. :) -sv -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
