You have got to be kidding. If it weren't for Red Hat, there would be no Mandrake. Mandrake started off as an off the shelf Red Hat distro with a few tweaks/customizations. And since when is apt-get a Mandrake thing? It's a Debian thing. I can't find any possible comparison between the RH merger with Fedora and Mandrake.
RPM stands for (or used to stand for "Red Hat package manager" and it is what is at the base of Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE and other distros. It's an excellent package manager. There are several dependency resolvers that are used as front-ends to the basic RPM package manager. up2date, apt-get, yum, urpmi, etc that make life easy for people who don't actually understand the package manager (and even for those that do). contrary to popular belief, apt-get, yum, urpmi, etc are not package managers. In Red Hat, Mandrake, and SuSE the package manager is "rpm". In Debian it's "dpkg".
What makes package life easy in either of these is the front-end such as apt-get (the one I prefer). The front-end is useless without a good repository of software with high quality packages and many of them. This is where Fedora comes in, although I prefer <A HREF="http://www.freshrpms.net/" TITLE="freshrpms.net">FreshRPMS</a freshrpms.net>.
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Posted by: Void Main on October 02, 2003 02:47 AMRPM stands for (or used to stand for "Red Hat package manager" and it is what is at the base of Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE and other distros. It's an excellent package manager. There are several dependency resolvers that are used as front-ends to the basic RPM package manager. up2date, apt-get, yum, urpmi, etc that make life easy for people who don't actually understand the package manager (and even for those that do). contrary to popular belief, apt-get, yum, urpmi, etc are not package managers. In Red Hat, Mandrake, and SuSE the package manager is "rpm". In Debian it's "dpkg".
What makes package life easy in either of these is the front-end such as apt-get (the one I prefer). The front-end is useless without a good repository of software with high quality packages and many of them. This is where Fedora comes in, although I prefer <A HREF="http://www.freshrpms.net/" TITLE="freshrpms.net">FreshRPMS</a freshrpms.net>.
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