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  From: Richard Russell <richard@yellowgoanna.com>
  To  : Joseph Tan <j.tan@bigpond.com>
  Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:07:13 +1030

Re: Any Questions to Red Hat, Mandrake You'd Like To Ask?

note all, that this was a question about RH's and Mandrake's _plans_
for the future... Yeah, apt and rpm are different in functionality,
and there are various projects to make an apt-like system for rpms,
but that's not what I was asking about. Note also that to have an
effective system like apt, you need a strict policy on package
specification -- they all need to be thoroughly tested, and have
dependencies clearly specified, for a start... and this is something
that is more to do with the maintainers of the package repository than
the actual package management software itself...

Anyway....

I'm sure someone else may have a useful question or two as well...

rr

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:59:11PM +1030, Richard Russell wrote:
> yeah...
> 
> What's your (Redhat's/Mandrake's) plans for future package management
> system upgrades? Will RPM be made as usable as apt (or even BSD's
> ports?) ?
> 
> rr
> 
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:49:18PM +1030, Joseph Tan wrote:
> > Hiya Everyone,
> > 
> > On Tech-Junkie I'm currently doing a RedHat 7.2 and Mandrake 8.1 comparative
> > review. The review will be centred around both distro's usability - I'm
> > going to do this article different in that I'll be looking at how good both
> > are as desktop OSes.
> > 
> > For some interest, I've got Marty Wesley (Red Hat's OS Product Manager) and
> > Mathilde Kraskovetz (Mandrake's Communication & PR person) to answer any and
> > all questions regarding their most recent products. I'm not sure yet whether
> > to include their responses with the comparative review since it may unduly
> > bias the article - I could always launch it separately.
> > 
> > Anyway, since many of you seem like you live and breath Linux, are there any
> > questions YOU'd like to ask to both of them?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Joseph Tan
> > 
> > 
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