Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Sep 13 04:44:07 UTC 2009
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
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