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From: Filby, Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, May 28, 1998 7:43 AM
Subject: Well, is it?
>I am RedHat user of full six months standing. I was told that Redhat was
>a hybrid ("ein Z ing" = rather less polite
>than hybrid when expressed in German) between SusE and Debian and that
>nobody used it here.
SusE uses RPM.
RPM stands for "RedHat Package Manager", not "SusE Package Manager".
Sure, RedHat is a hybrid. So is SusE. So is Debian. So is Linux, for that
matter, all the way down to the kernel.
The next time he tells you that, tell him SusE is a hybrid of Slackware,
RedHat, and Debian. See what he says.
The beauty of Linux is that when one distribution benefits, we all can
benefit.
Tell him that if he's concerned about "purity" in his operating system, he
needs to stay away from SusE, Debian, Red Hat, and for that matter Linux
entirely.
Come to think of it, he can't use AIX, HP-UX, SCO, or Solaris either, since
they're all hybrids.
Better go back to DOS.
Ooops, nope, that won't work; DOS is a hybrid of CP/M, Unix, and others.
Guess he'll need to write his own OS. But without taking anything from any
standard text on OS design, because if he does he'll end up with a hybrid.
He's demonstrably wrong in his "nobody use(s) it here" comment, too; you use
it.
There's nothing wrong with SusE that's any more serious than what's wrong
with Red Hat. Use whichever you like. If the locals won't help you, don't
fret; the locals won't help me, either. :-)
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