OT: What's the deal with Ubuntu?

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 09:33, John Summerfied wrote:

> > 
> > This is probably mainly because Debian's been doing the repository thing
> > longer than Red Hat, and they just have more software packaged up and
> > ready to go ...
> It's mainly because Debian isn't constrained by the commercial reality 
> that it costs money to document, package, distribute and support tbis stuff.

Neither is fedora if you count the 3rd party RPM repositories.  The
problem is that there are conflicts in naming conventions and no one
agrees on how to RPM package all the perl modules that you need for
nice things like backuppc or Request Tracker or MimeDefang to be
bundled.

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  Les Mikesell
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